Wolf, Abraham

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WOLF, ABRAHAM

WOLF, ABRAHAM (1876–1948), English philosopher. He was professor of logic and scientific method at University College, London, concurrently lecturing at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 1931 until his retirement in 1941, he was dean of the faculty of economics and political science at the University of London. He was a member of the editorial board of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and was also the editor of the History of the Sciences Library. His main works deal with logic and scientific method, Spinoza, Nietzsche, and the history of science. He also wrote on higher education in Nazi Germany and in German-occupied countries.

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"Abraham Wolf," in: S. Brown (ed.), Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Philosophers (2005).

[Samuel Hugo Bergman]