Herbert Wildon Carr (born 16 January 1857) was a British philosopher.

Life

He was Professor of Philosophy, King's College, London from 1918 to 1925, and Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California from 1925 until his death on 8 July 1931 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

He was a student at King's College London where he was awarded the Jelf Medal..

Works

• Henri Bergson: the philosophy of change, London: Jack, 1911
• The Problem of Truth, New York: Dodge, 1913
• The Philosophy of Benedetto Croce, London: Macmillan, 1917
• The General Principle of Relativity in Its Philosophical and Historical Aspect, London: Macmillan, 1922
• L'Énergie spirituelle, Translated by H. Wildon Carr as Mind-Energy: Lectures and Essays, London: Macmillan, 1920
• A Theory of Monads: Outlines of the Philosophy of the Principle of Relativity, London: Macmillan, 1922
• Scientific Approach to Philosophy: Selected Essays and Reviews, London: Macmillan, 1924
• Changing Backgrounds in Religion and Ethics: A Metaphysical Meditation, New York: Macmillan, 1927
• The Unique Status of Man, in, American Journal of Sociology, 1928
• The Freewill Problem, London: Benn Ltd., 1928
• Leibniz, Boston: Little Brown, 1929

References

• http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v128/n3220/abs/128098b0.html
• ‘CARR, Herbert Wildon’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 15 Feb 2012 (subscription required)
• Pierfrancesco Basile, "Herbert Wildon Carr" in Michel Weber, ed., Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Volume II (2008) pages 383-4
• "Carr, Herbert Wildon" in Brown, ed., Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers
• Richard T. Hull, Presidential Addresses of The American Philosophical Association, 1921-1930, pages 439-440

External links

• Works by H. Wildon Carr at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about H. Wildon Carr at Internet Archive
• Works by H. Wildon Carr at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)