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5 unusual facts about Josiah Royce


Barkley Thompson

In addition to his pastorally oriented works, Thompson has published academic essays focusing on figures as diverse as the 19th century philosopher Josiah Royce and the contemporary agrarian writer Wendell Berry.

Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis

The Josiah Royce Papers, which is preparing a critical edition of the works of the American idealist philosopher.

L. P. Jacks

After graduating, he spent a year on scholarship at Harvard University, where he studied with the philosopher Josiah Royce and the literary scholar Charles Eliot Norton.

Radical empiricism

Radical empiricism relates to discussions about direct versus indirect realism as well as to early twentieth-century discussions against the idealism of influential philosophers like Josiah Royce.

Royce Hall

Named after Josiah Royce, a California-born philosopher who received his bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley in 1875, the building's exterior is composed of elements borrowed from numerous northern Italian sources.


Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison

William James, George Santayana, Bertrand Russell and George Herbert Mead, all borrowed his concept of the personality, or psyche, and sought it as a barrier against the claims of Gabriel Tarde, F. H. Bradley, and Josiah Royce.

World Congress of Philosophy

The second International Congress took place in Geneva in 1904; the third was in Heidelberg, 1908 (with Josiah Royce, Wilhelm Windelband and Benedetto Croce).


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