Curt John Ducasse - Wikipedia Curt John Ducasse From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Curt John Ducasse Born (1881-07-07)July 7, 1881 Angoulême, France Died September 3, 1969(1969-09-03) (aged 88) Providence, Rhode Island Nationality French/American Alma mater University of Washington Harvard University Era Western philosophy Region Contemporary philosophy School Analytic philosophy Institutions University of Washington Brown University Doctoral advisor Josiah Royce[1] Doctoral students Richard Cartwright[2] Main interests Philosophy of mind, aesthetics, philosophy of religion Notable ideas Philosophical examination of the idea of life after death Influences William James, Josiah Royce Influenced Roderick Chisholm, Wilfrid Sellars Curt John Ducasse (French: [dykas]; 7 July 1881 – 3 September 1969) was a French-born American philosopher who taught at the University of Washington and Brown University.[3] Contents 1 Career 2 Parapsychology 3 Publications 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External links Career[edit] Ducasse was born in Angoulême, France. He obtained A.B. and A.M. degrees in philosophy from University of Washington. In 1912, he obtained his PhD from Harvard University.[3] He is most notable for his work in philosophy of mind and aesthetics. His influence can be seen in the work of Roderick Chisholm and Wilfrid Sellars. Ducasse served as the president of the Eastern division of the American Philosophical Association (1939–40) and president of the Philosophy of Science Association (1958–61).[3] Ducasse was influenced by William James and Josiah Royce.[4] Parapsychology[edit] Ducasse wrote on parapsychology. He joined the American Society for Psychical Research in 1951 and served a term as vice president beginning in 1966. His book A Critical Examination of the Belief in a Life After Death is a philosophical attempt to examine the idea of life after death.[5] In it he expressed his belief in survival.[3] The book was praised by parapsychologists.[6] Criticism came from philosopher Corliss Lamont who asserted that some of the content was based on wishful thinking.[7] Ducasse was a believer in reincarnation. Science writer Martin Gardner observed that Ducasse was notable for "combining nonbelief in God with a belief in the preexistence and the afterlife of human souls."[8] Publications[edit] Ducasse, Causation and the Types of Necessity, (1924) Ducasse, The Philosophy of Art, (1929) Ducasse, Philosophy as a Science, (1941) Ducasse, Art, the Critics, and You, (1944) Ducasse, Is a Life After Death Possible?, (1948) Ducasse, Nature, Mind, and Death, (1951) Ducasse, A Philosophical Scrutiny of Religion, (1953) Ducasse, A Critical Examination of the Belief in a Life after Death, (1961) Ducasse, Truth, Knowledge, and Causation, (1968) References[edit] ^ Peter H. Hare, Edward H. Madden (eds.), Causing, Perceiving and Believing, Springer, 2012, p. 6. ^ John R. Shook (ed.), Dictionary Of Modern American Philosophers, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005, p. 444. ^ a b c d Chisholm, R. M. (1970). C. J. Ducasse (1881-1969). Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 30: 631–633. ^ Shook, J. R. (2010). "Peter Hare on the Philosophy of Curt John Ducasse". Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. Vol. 46, No. 1, A Symposium in Memory of Peter H. Hare / Joseph Palencik & Russell Pryba, Guest Editors. pp. 47–52. ^ Flew, Antony. (1962). Review of A Critical Examination of the Belief in a Life After Death. The Philosophical Review 71: 402–404. ^ Price, H. H. (1963). Review of A Critical Examination of the Belief in a Life after Death. Philosophy East and West 12: 362–364. ^ Lamont, Corliss. (1962). Review of A Critical Examination of the Belief in a Life after Death. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 13: 244–248. ^ Gardner, Martin. (2009). When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish: And Other Speculations About This and That. Hill & Wang. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-374-53241-3 Further reading[edit] Frederick C. Dommeyer. (1966). Current Philosophical Issues: Essays in Honor of Curt John Ducasse. Thomas. P. H. Hare and Edward H. Madden. (1975). Causing, Perceiving and Believing: An Examination of the Philosophy of C. J. Ducasse. Springer. Barry, Jay, Gentlemen Under the Elms, Brown University, 1982. (Chapter 10 is a profile and biography of Ducasse, with photographs). External links[edit] Works by or about Curt John Ducasse at Internet Archive Biography from Brown.edu v t e Aesthetics topics Philosophers Abhinavagupta Theodor W. Adorno Leon Battista Alberti Thomas Aquinas Hans Urs von Balthasar Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten Clive Bell Bernard Bosanquet Edward Bullough R. G. Collingwood Ananda Coomaraswamy Arthur Danto John Dewey Denis Diderot Hubert Dreyfus Curt John Ducasse Thierry de Duve Roger Fry Nelson Goodman Clement Greenberg Georg Hegel Martin Heidegger David Hume Immanuel Kant Paul Klee Susanne Langer Theodor Lipps György Lukács Jean-François Lyotard Joseph Margolis Jacques Maritain Thomas Munro Friedrich Nietzsche José Ortega y Gasset Dewitt H. 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