Everett Hall

Everett Wesley Hall (April 24, 1901 – June 17, 1960)

Stanford, the University of Iowa, and the University of North Carolina (he was Department Chairman at the last two schools and was Kenan Professor at North Carolina). He also held visiting appointments at Northwestern University, the University of Southern California, and Kyoto University. Hall was the author of four books as well as numerous papers. The books are What is Value (1952), Modern Science and Human Values(1956), Philosophical Systems(1960), and Our Knowledge of Fact and Value (1961). After his death a number of his papers were collected by his colleague, E. M. Adams and published as Categorial Analysis

(1964).

Philosophy

Hall's philosophy was a linguistic variant of

D. M. Armstrong, Alex Byrne, and Michael Tye. Hall's denial that the commonsense worldview must eventually be supplanted by a "scientific image" foreshadows positions later taken by Amie Thomasson. His view that Coherentism provides a reasonable foundation for human knowledge only if certain (perceptual) experiences provide their own inherent evidence was a precursor to the Foundherentism of Susan Haack

.

Hall's meta-ethical views were similarly characterized by the belief that emotions, also being intentional (in

Natural Rights theory at least since the time of John Locke are insufficient for contemporary society. This position is set forth in his 1943 paper "An Ethics for Today".^[6]

In

G.E.Moore's famous list. It was Hall's view that any philosophical position that conflicts too deeply or frequently with those features of common sense that are reflected in the basic grammatical forms that natural languages can take will be implausible not only to non-philosophers, but to philosophers as well when they are not actively engaging in revisionary metaphysics.^[7]

In 1966, The Southern Journal of Philosophy published a festschrift in Hall's honor which contained papers by, among others, his former colleague Wilfrid Sellars^[8] and his former student Romane Clark.

References

^ "Hall, Everett Wesley (1901-60)", in Dictionary Of Modern American Philosophers, John R. Shook, ed. (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005) p 1007
^ Hall, "The Adequacy of a Neurological Theory of Perception" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1957)
^ Natsoulas, "On Perceptual Aboutness" (1977)
^ Hall, Our Knowledge of Fact and Value (1961)
^ Hall, What Is Value? (1952)
^ "An Ethics for Today"
^ Hall, Philosophical Systems (1960)
^ Sellars, "The Intentional Realism of Everett Hall" (1966)

[1] "Hall, Everett Wesley (1901-60)", in Dictionary Of Modern American Philosophers, John R. Shook, ed. (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005) p 1007

[2] Hall, "The Adequacy of a Neurological Theory of Perception" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1957)

[3] Natsoulas, "On Perceptual Aboutness" (1977)

[4] Hall, Our Knowledge of Fact and Value (1961)

[5] Hall, What Is Value? (1952)

[6] "An Ethics for Today"

[7] Hall, Philosophical Systems (1960)

[8] Sellars, "The Intentional Realism of Everett Hall" (1966)

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