John Oulton Wisdom

J. O. Wisdom
Wisdom pictured in 1928 after coming second in the Irish Amateur Close golfing championship
Born29 December 1908
Dublin, Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Died30 January 1993
Castlebridge, County Wexford, Republic of Ireland

John Oulton Wisdom (29 December 1908 – 30 January 1993), cousin of Cambridge professor John Wisdom (with whom he is sometimes confused[1]) was "an important contributor to philosophy and to psychoanalysis" who made "original contributions to the mind-body problem, to philosophy of science, to cybernetics, to the theory of psychosomatic disorder, and to psychoanalytic theory".[2]

  1. ^ Passmore, John (1957). One Hundred Years Of Philosophy. pp. 437. It strikes one as odd that a philosopher should be called 'Wisdom'; that two bearers of the name should be contemporary philosophers passes beyond the limits of the reasonable; that they should both be interested in psycho-analysis has produced in many minds the justifiable conviction that the two are one. But it must be none the less insisted that J. O. Wisdom of the London School of Economics ...is not identical with his cousin Professor John Wisdom of the University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ "Obituary: J. O. Wisdom". The Independent. 1993-03-04. Archived from the original on 2022-06-13. Retrieved 2018-12-29.