James Hayden Tufts (1862– August 5, 1942),[1] an influential American philosopher, was a professor of the then newly founded
Chicago University. Tufts was also a member of the Board of Arbitration, and the chairman of a committee of the social agencies of Chicago. The work Ethics in 1908 (with a second edition appearing in 1932) was a collaboration of Tufts and
John Dewey. Tufts believed in a conception of mutual influences which he saw as opposed in both
Marxism and
idealism.
Tufts was born in Monson Massachusetts and attended his father's school. He was an 1884 graduate of
Amherst College; received a B.D. from
Yale University in 1889 (where he won the
John Addison Porter Prize), an M.A. from
Amherst College in 1890, and his Ph.D. from the
University of Freiburg under
Alois Riehl in 1892. With John Dewey and
George Herbert Mead (both of whom Tufts was instrumental in bringing to the University), Tufts was a co-founder of the Chicago School of Pragmatism. Tufts was a longstanding chairman of the Department of Philosophy and at one time was the acting president of Chicago University.
Tufts, James Hayden (April 1908). "The Adjustment of the Church to the Psychological Conditions of the Present". The American Journal of Theology. 12 (2): 177–188.
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