JOHN COOK WILSON

'John Cook Wilson' (born Nottingham 6 June 1849, died 1915) was an English philosopher.

Contents

Education

Career summary

Author

Family

Trivia

References

Education

The only son of a Methodist minister, after Derby School he went up to Balliol College, Oxford in 1868, where he read both Classics and Mathematics, gaining a double First in both.

Career summary

Wilson became a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford in 1873. He was Wykeham Professor of Logic and a Fellow of New College, Oxford, from 1889 until his death. H. A. Prichard and H. H. Price were among his students.
Belonging to a generation brought up in the atmosphere of British idealism, he espoused the cause of philosophical realism. His posthumous collected papers, ''Statement and Inference'', were influential on a generation of Oxford philosophers. He features prominently in the work of Austin and John McDowell.

Author

★ ''Statement and Inference'' by John Cook Wilson, edited from the manuscripts by A.S.L. Farquharson (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1926)

★ ''Statement and Inference'' (new edition, Thoemmes Continuum, 2007, 1091 pages) ISBN-10 185506958X

★ ''On Military Cycling or Amenities of Controversy'' (1889)

★ ''On the Interpretation of Plato's Timaeus'' (1886, new edition 1980) ISBN-10 0824095715

★ ''Aristotelian Studies I'' (1879)

★ ''On the Platonist Doctrine of the Asymbletoi Arithmoi'' (new edition, 1980) ISBN-10 0824095715

Family

Wilson married a German wife, Charlotte Schneider, in 1876. They had no children.

Trivia

★ He had a long running dispute with Lewis Carroll over the ''Barber Shop Paradox''.

References

★ ''Professor John Cook Wilson'' by H. A. Prichard in ''Mind'', New Series, Vol. 28, No. 111 (July, 1919), pp. 297-318

★ ''The Theory of Judgment in the Philosophies of F.H. Bradley and John Cook Wilson'' by M. Ahmed (University of Dacca, 1955)

★ John Cook Wilson at amazon.co.uk

★ John Cook Wilson at philosophypages.com

★ JSTOR