John Watson
1847–1939
Scottish-born Canadian philosopher. Studied at Glasgow University. Professor of logic, metaphysics, and ethics at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, 1872; of moral philosophy, 1889; vice-principal, 1901–24. Published extensively on idealism. Opposed positivist, empiricist, and evolutionist varieties of materialism.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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