Warner Fite

Warner Fite (5 March 1867 – 23 June 1955) was an American philosopher.

Biography

Warner Fite was born in Philadelphia. He graduated with a BA from Haverford College in 1889 and received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1894.[1] Besides teaching at the University of Chicago (1897–1901), Fite also worked at the University of Texas (1903–1906), Indiana University (1906–1908) and Harvard University (1911–1912).[1] He held the chair of Stuart Professor of Ethics at Princeton University from 1917 until his retirement in 1935.[1]

Warner Fite died in 1955.[2]

Works

• An Introductory Study of Ethics (1903).
• Individualism (1911).
• Birth-Control and Biological Ethics (1916).
• Moral Philosophy (1925).
  • The Examined Life: An Adventure in Moral Philosophy (1957).
• The Living Mind (1930).
• The Platonic Legend (1934).
• Jesus: The Man (1946).

Translations

• Mist: A Tragicomic Novel, by Miguel de Unamuno (1928).

Selected articles

• "Art, Industry and Science," The Psychological Review, Vol. VIII, No. 2, 1901, pp. 128–144.
• "The Monaural Localization of Sound," The Psychological Review, Vol. VIII, No. 3, 1901, pp. 225–246 (with James Rowland Angell).
• "Further Observations on the Monaural Localization of Sound," The Psychological Review, Vol. VIII, No. 5, 1901, pp. 449–458 (with James Rowland Angell).
• "The Place of Pleasure and Pain in the Functional Psychology," The Psychological Review, Vol. X, 1903, pp. 633–644.
• "The Social Implications of Consciousness," The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. X, No. 14, 1913, pp. 365–374.
• "Pragmatism and Truth," Philosophical Review, Vol. XXIII, 1914, pp. 506–524.
• "The Barbarian Invasion," The Unpopular Review, Vol. I, No. 2, 1914, pp. 389–406.
• "A New Essay in the Psychology of Advertising," The Unpopular Review, Vol. IV, No. 1, 1915, pp. 110–119.
• "Moral Valuations and Economic Laws," The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XIV, No. 1, 1917, pp. 5–20.
• "Consciousness: Where is It?," The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XIV, No. 11, 1917, pp. 281–288.
• "The Philosopher and his Words," Philosophical Review, Vol. XLIV, 1935, pp. 120–137.

Notes

1. Stroh, Guy W. (2005). "Fite, Warner (1867–1955)." In: John R. Shook (Ed.) Dictionary Of Modern American Philosophers, Vol. I. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, p. 802.
2. "Dr. Warner Fite, Educator, is Dead," The New York Times, June 24, 1955, p. 19.

External links

• Works by or about Warner Fite at Internet Archive
• Works by Warner Fite, at Hathi Trust
• Works by Warner Fite, at JSTOR
• Works by Warner Fite, at Unz.org
• Warner Fite Collection 1906-1928