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Samuel Alexander (January 6, 1859 - September 13, 1938) was an Australian-born philosopher.

His work
Both key conception for Alexander come victims of an 'emergent quality' & a idea of 'emergent evolution':

His project, when in any metaphysical theory, was to account for each aspect of existent reality in the simplest & virtually all economic basis. Alexander's idea wwhen to run by using Space & Instance every of which he take to be unimaginable forgoing a more, as a matter of fact he saw the babies as reciprocally tantamount. Away from this pure Space-Space-time continuum emerges, across the run Alexander describes only when 'motion', a stuff & matter that produce higher my poop globe:

Alexander absolutizes Space-Space-time continuum, & potentially speaks of it as a "stuff’ of which things are made. At the same time he also says that Space-Time can be called Motions -- not "motion" in the singular, but complexes of motions with kaleidoscopic changes within a continuum. So one might say that for Alexander motion is primitive, and Space and Time are defined through relations between motions.

Alexander asked the question:

The question went largely unanswered and his work is mostly ignored (or, at best, little known) these days.

Alexander was a contemporary of Alfred North Whitehead and mentored others who went on to become major figures in 20th century British philosophy.

Samuel Alexander and Zionism
Brief article on the philosopher's connection to this movement, especially Chaim Weizmann.

Samuel Alexander Papers
Archive housed at the John Rylands Library at Manchester University. Brief profile of the thinker and general information on the documents.

History of Ideas: The Collected Works of Samuel Alexander
John G. Slater's scholarly introduction to this collection, published in 2000.

FOLDOC: Alexander Samuel
Concise entry with links.

Samuel Alexander
Partial bibliography, links, and full text of his 1911 paper outlining "conational psychology."


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