External links
- Lecture Note Book of Professor T.E. Jessop
- ‘A Brief History of the Department’, (by Stephen A. Burwood) University of Hull Department of Philosophy (Archived by Wayback Machine)
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T. E. Jessop | |
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| Born | 10 September 1896 Huddersfield, England, U. K. |
| Died | 10 September 1980 (aged 84) Hull, England, UK |
Thomas Edmund Jessop, OBE (10 September 1896 - 10 September 1980) was a British academic best known for his work on George Berkeley. [1]
Jessop was born, the son of Newton and Georgiana (Swift) Jessop, in Huddersfield on 10 September 1896. [1]
He was educated at the University of Leeds, where he received his B.A. (1921) and M.A. (1922). [1] He gained his B.Litt from Oriel College, Oxford. [1] From 1925 to 1928 he was an assistant lecturer at the University of Glasgow. [1]
Jessop was the first member of Hull University's philosophy department and the first Ferens Professor of Philosophy (1928–1960). [1] Jessop served as the philosophy department's sole member of teaching staff for seventeen years, while also teaching courses for the psychology degree. [1] In 1946 he was joined at the department of philosophy by 'ordinary language' philosopher Alan R. White (who succeeded Jessop to the Ferens Chair in 1961). [2]
His book The Treaty of Versailles: Was it Just? concluded that the 1919 peace treaty was overall a just one. [3]
Jessop was a Methodist, serving as a local preacher and, in 1955 as Vice-President of the Methodist Conference [4]
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George Berkeley – known as Bishop Berkeley – was an Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism". This theory denies the existence of material substance and instead contends that familiar objects like tables and chairs are ideas perceived by the mind and, as a result, cannot exist without being perceived. Berkeley is also known for his critique of abstraction, an important premise in his argument for immaterialism.
James Sully was an English psychologist.
Morgan John Rhys, also Rhees was a Welsh radical evangelical Baptist minister. He preached the principles of the French Revolution, against slavery, and in favour of the reform of parliament.
Arthur John Terence Dibben Wisdom, usually cited as John Wisdom, was a leading British philosopher considered to be an ordinary language philosopher, a philosopher of mind and a metaphysician. He was influenced by G.E. Moore, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Sigmund Freud, and in turn explained and extended their work.
John Henry Muirhead was a British philosopher 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.
Andrew Pyle is a British philosopher on the history of philosophical atomism.
Robert Culp Stalnaker is an American philosopher who is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
Rush Rhees was an American philosopher. He is principally known as a student, friend, and literary executor of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. With G. E. M. Anscombe, he edited Wittgenstein's posthumous Philosophical Investigations (1953), a highly influential work. He was also responsible for publishing other works by Wittgenstein, including Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, Philosophische Bemerkungen, Philosophical Remarks, and Philosophical Grammar. Rhees taught philosophy at Swansea University from 1940 until 1966, when he took early retirement to devote more time to editing Wittgenstein's works.
Arthur Aston Luce was professor of philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, and also Precentor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin (1952–1973). Luce held many clerical appointments, including Vice-Provost of Trinity from 1946 to 1952. He was widely known as an authority on the philosopher George Berkeley. His fellowship of Trinity College from 1912 to 1977 is a record.
Sidney Edward Mezes was an American philosopher.
Thomas Robinson Ferens was a British Liberal politician, a philanthropist, and an industrialist. He was the Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull East for 13 years, and served the city as a Justice of the Peace and as High Steward. He helped establish Reckitt and Sons, a manufacturer of household goods, as one of Kingston upon Hull's foremost businesses. His career with the company spanned 61 years—from his initial employment as a confidential and shorthand clerk until his death, as chairman, in 1930.
Rev. Benjamin Rush Rhees ( 1860–1939) was the third president of the University of Rochester, serving from 1900 to 1935.
Robert Drew Hicks was a classical scholar, and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
John Renford Bambrough was a British philosopher. He was fellow of St John's College, Cambridge from 1950-1999, where he held the positions of Dean (1964–1979) and President (1979–1983).
George Dawes Hicks FBA was a British philosopher who was the first professor of moral philosophy at University College, London from 1904 until 1928 and professor emeritus thereafter until his death.
The Ferens Chair in Philosophy, established in 1927, is one of the founding Chairs of the University of Hull and is supported by an endowment provided by the founder of the university Thomas Ferens. Previous occupants of the Chair include Thomas Jessop OBE, Alan R. White, Peter Lamarque and Kathleen Lennon. From 2013-14 the holder of the Ferens Chair is Nick Zangwill.
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Alan Richard White was an analytic philosopher who worked mainly in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and, latterly, legal philosophy. Peter Hacker notes that he was "the most skillful developer of Rylean ... ideas in philosophical psychology" and that "if anyone surpassed Austin in subtlety and refinement in the discrimination of grammatical differences, it was White." Richard Swinburne remarks that "during the heyday of 'ordinary language philosophy' no tongue practised it better."
Hyam Leon Roth, FBA, commonly known as Leon Roth, was an English philosopher and historian of philosophy.
Jennifer Lesley Trusted is a philosopher of physics, metaphysics, ethics, and the history of science.
