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Dickinson Sargeant Miller (October 7, 1868 – November 13, 1963) worked with many world-renowned philosophers, including William James, George Santayana, John Dewey, Edmund Husserl, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.〔Loyd Easton, ''Dickinson Miller: Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare", Reidel, 1975〕 ==Biography== Miller received the A.B. degree in 1889 under George Fullerton at the University of Pennsylvania. He studied psychology under G. Stanley Hall at Clark University for a year, and then went to Harvard where he was a graduate student under William James, G. H. Palmer, Josiah Royce, and Santayana. He received the A.M. from Harvard in 1892.〔Loyd Easton, ''Dickinson Miller: Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare", p.1〕 He then spent a year in Germany studying at Berlin and Halle under Max Dessoir, Hermann Ebbinghaus, and Friedrich Paulsen, earning his Ph.D. with a dissertation on ''Das Wesen der Erkenntnis und des Irrthums'', which was published as "The Meaning of Truth and Error" in ''The Philosophical Review'' in 1893.〔Easton, p.2〕 This article led James to abandon Royce's solution of the knowledge problem in terms of an absolute mind. James recommended Miller to a post at Bryn Mawr College in 1893, where he was a close friend of Woodrow Wilson.〔Easton, p.2〕 In 1899, Miller became a strong critic of James's famous arguments in ''The Will to Believe'' that the beneficial effects of a belief somehow increased its "truth." His critical article was "The Will to Believe and the Duty to Doubt."〔Ralph Barton Perry, ''The Thought and Character of William James'', vol. 2, p.240〕 Miller left Bryn Mawr that year to become an instructor of philosophy at Harvard, where he had a strong and productive collaboration with James.〔Easton, p.5〕 James referred to Miller as "my most penetrating critic and intimate enemy." 〔("R. E. Hobart" on Information Philosopher )〕 In 1904, Miller left Harvard to be a lecturer in philosophy at Columbia and professor in 1911. There he worked with Arthur O. Lovejoy and John Dewey.〔Easton, p.8〕 Miller retired from academic work after two years at Smith College (1926-26) and went into a "European retirement." 〔Easton, p.21〕 He visited Rome at first and then alternated between Florence and Vienna, where he made contact with the "Vienna Circle" of philosophers, including Moritz Schlick, Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, Herbert Feigl, and others. Miller challenged a basic principle of the Circle that "no sentence can be admitted to philosophical thought as having a meaning unless it is verifiable in experience." Such a principle, he argued "cuts the ground from under its own feet" because a sentence has to already have meaning before you can apply the test.〔Easton, p.22〕 In Vienna he met with Ludwig Wittgenstein who was then loosely associated with the Vienna Circle. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dickinson S. Miller」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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