The American philosopher Josiah Royce (1855-1916) was the last and the greatest spokesperson for systematic philosophical idealism in the United States. Josiah Royce was born on Nov. 20, 1855, at Grass Valley, Calif. His forceful mother gave him his...

Josiah Royce is the chief American exponent of absolute idealism--or, indeed, of any type of idealism. He was a younger colleague of William James at Harvard; each of these great thinkers profoundly influenced the other, both positively and negatively,...

Royce, Josiah(1855–1916) Josiah Royce, the American idealist philosopher, was born in Grass Valley, California. He received his AB degree from the University of California in 1875 and his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1878. In the...

Josiah Royce (November 20, 1855, Grass Valley, California. – September 14, 1916, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American objective idealist...

The nineteenth-century West produced a surprising number of the nation's leading historians, philosophers, and novelists. Josiah Royce, Jr., a young man from Gold Rush-era California, became a prominent Harvard professor and made important contributions to American Philosophy. He has been studied by Vincent...

Two books appeared in the mid-1980s that were important in re-orienting public discourse about the past and the future of American life. Late; two groups of scholars evaluated these books, and the authors were given an opportunity for response. In both cases the...