J. H. Muirhead

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John Henry Muirhead
Born28 April 1855
20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolBritish idealism

John Henry Muirhead (28 April 1855 – 24 May 1940) was a Scottish

philosopher[1] best known for having initiated the Muirhead Library of Philosophy in 1890. He became the first person named to the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham
in 1900.

Biography

Born in

Glasgow University, where he was deeply influenced by the Hegelianism of Edward Caird, the Professor of Moral Philosophy. He graduated MA in 1875. The same year he won a Snell exhibition at Balliol College, Oxford, to which he went up in Trinity Term 1875. His Library was originally published by Allen & Unwin
and continued through to the 1970s.

His Library is seen as a crucial landmark in the history of modern philosophy, publishing a number of prominent 20th century philosophers including

ISBN 0-415-27897-X
).

Muirhead was a philosophical

British idealist movement.[2][3]

Selected bibliography

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-691-15116-8
    .
  2. ISBN 978-1843711414
  3. ISBN 978-0-19-955929-9

External links
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