Samuel Alexander

For other people named Samuel Alexander, see Samuel Alexander (disambiguation).

Samuel Alexander
OM FBA
Born6 January 1859
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died13 September 1938 (1938-09-14) (aged 79)
Manchester, England
Alma mater
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
School
Main interests
Metaphysics
Notable ideas
Emergent evolution

Samuel Alexander OM FBA (6 January 1859 – 13 September 1938) was an Australian-born British philosopher. He was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college.[2] He is now best known as an advocate of emergentism in biology.[3]

  1. ^ a b "Samuel Alexander" entry by Emily A. E. Thomas in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 13 July 2022
  2. ^ Weinstein, Michael A. "Alexander, Samuel (1859–1938)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30372. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Baldwin, Thomas (27 November 2003). The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870-1945. Cambridge University Press. p. 765. ISBN 978-0-521-59104-1.