Ralph Barton Perry

Ralph Barton Perry 1876-1957, American realist philosopher, b. Poultney, Vt., grad. Princeton (B.A., 1896) and Harvard (Ph.D., 1899). He taught at Harvard from 1902, becoming professor of philosophy in 1913 and professor emeritus in 1946. He revised (1925) Alfred Weber's History of Philosophy. Editor of the works of William James, he won the 1936 Pulitzer Prize in biography for The Thought and Character of William James (1935). His other writings include The New Realism (1912), General Theory of Value (1926), Puritanism and Democracy (1944), The Realms of Value (1954), and The Humanity of Man (1956).

Perry, Ralph Barton (1876–1957), professor at Harvard, a follower of William James. His books include The Moral Economy (1909); The New Realism (1912); The Present Conflict of Ideals (1918); The Thought and Character of William James (2 vols., 1935, Pulitzer Prize); Shall Not Perish from the Earth (1940), an analysis of American democracy; Puritanism and Democracy (1944); The Hope for Immortality (1945); and One World in the Making (1945).