Addison Webster Moore

Addison Webster Moore (30 July 1866 - 25 August 1930) was a U.S. pragmatist philosopher. He was president of the Western Philosophical Association in 1911 and president of the American Philosophical Association in 1917.

He was born in Plainfield, Indiana, USA. He started his philosophy graduation at Cornell University in 1892, but moved two years later to the University of Chicago attracted by John Dewey's arrival there. When Dewey went to Columbia University in 1904, Moore took over the Metaphysics and Logic courses at Chicago.

Moore was a supporter of Dewey's instrumentalist version of pragmatism. In 1910, he published Pragmatism and Its Critics, consisting of one chapter explaining pragmatism and four chapters adressing criticisms directed towards this doctrine.

External links

• Moore at the Pragmatist Cybrary. Includes a short biography and a list of Moore's writings.
• Introduction to The Collected Writings of Addison W. Moore, by John Shook. (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2003)