Wilmon Henry Sheldon

Wilmon Henry Sheldon (1875–1980) was a twentieth-century American philosopher.

Wilmon Henry Sheldon
Born	(1875-04-04)April 4, 1875 Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, US
Died	February 26, 1980(1980-02-26) (aged 104) Pittsford, Vermont, US
Era	20th-century philosophy
School	Process philosophy

Life and career

Wilmon Henry Sheldon was born in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts on April 4, 1875.^[1]

He was educated at Harvard University and taught at Yale.^[2]

He died in Pittsford, Vermont on February 26, 1980, and was interred at the Central Burying Grounds in Hamden, Connecticut.^[3]

Major works

• Strife of Systems and Productive Duality: An Essay in Philosophy. Harvard University Press. 1918.
• America's Progressive Philosophy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1942.
• Process and Polarity (Woodbridge Lectures, Columbia University). 1944.
• God and Polarity: A Synthesis of Philosophies. 1954.

References

1. Harvard College Class of 1895 Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Report. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1920. pp. 438–439. Retrieved October 2, 2024 – via Google Books.
2. Nicholas Rescher, Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy, SUNY Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-7914-2817-7, pp. 23-24.
3. "Man, 104, Dies". Rutland Daily Herald. Pittsford, Vermont. February 27, 1980. p. 4. Retrieved October 2, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.