H. W. B. Joseph
Horace William Brindley Joseph, FBA (28 September 1867 – 13 November 1943), published as H. W. B. Joseph, was a British philosopher, who spent his academic career as a Fellow and Tutor at New College, Oxford.
Biography
Early life
Horace William Brindley Joseph was born at
Career
Joseph was appointed a
In retirement, Joseph continued to teach at New College and also served as a member of Oxford City Council and Chairman of its Education Committee. He lived in College during term, but stayed with his mother during vacations at Holford and then from 1912 at Dinder. In 1919 he married Margaret (died 1926), a daughter of Robert Bridges, but there were no children of their happy union. He established a music scholarship in her memory at his college and, after he died in the Acland Home, Oxford, on 13 November 1943, New College erected a memorial tablet to Joseph and his wife in its cloisters.[2]
Philosophy
According to Clement C. J. Webb and C. A. Creffield:
In his earlier writings at least, he was a realist in the school of Cook Wilson. But his doubts concerning the independent reality of space and the nature of solidity and magnitude caused a gradual return to a position similar to the idealism which had prevailed in Oxford during his undergraduate days. He was hostile towards formalism in logic, particularly towards Russell, and argued against the attempt to establish mathematics as the model of all thought.
— Clement C. J. Webb and C. A. Creffield, "Joseph, Horace William Brindley (1867–1943)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)
Selected publications
- An Introduction to Logic. 1906. 2nd edition, revised. 1916.
- Some Problems in Ethics. 1931.
- Essays in Ancient & Modern Philosophy. 1935.
References
- ^ 'Oxford University Calendar 1895, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895: 265, 347
- ^ a b c d Clement C. J. Webb and C. A. Creffield, "Joseph, Horace William Brindley (1867–1943)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Retrieved 24 February 2018.
- ^ a b "Joseph, Horace William Brindley", Who Was Who (online edition; Oxford University Press, December 2007). Retrieved 24 February 2018.
- ^ H. A. Pritchard, "H. W. B. Joseph, 1867–1943", Mind, vol. 53, no. 210 (1944), pp. 189–191. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
Further reading
- A. H. Smith, "Joseph, Horace William Brindley, 1867–1943", Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 31 (1945), pp. 375–398.
- Obituaries in The Times, 15 November 1943; Oxford Magazine, 2 December 1943; and The Wykehamist 16 December 1943.
External links
- Works by or about Horace William Brindley Joseph at Wikisource