Professor Ralph Barton Perry (1876-1957) was an American philosopher, born at Poultney, Vt. He was educated at Princeton (A. B., 1896) and at Harvard (A. M., 1897; Ph. D., 1899), where, after teaching philosophy for three years at Williams and Smith colleges, he was instructor (1902-05), assistant professor (1905-13), and professor of philosophy. A pupil of William James, whose Essays in Radical Empiricism he edited (1912), Perry became one of the leaders of the neorealistic movement. Perry argued for a naturalistic theory of value and a New Realist theory of perception and knowledge. He wrote a celebrated biography of William James, and proceeded to a revision of his critical approach to natural knowledge. An active member among a group of American New Realist philosophers, he elaborated around 1910 the program of new realism. However, he soon dissented from moral and spiritual ontology, and turned to a philosophy of disillusionment. Perry was an advocate of a militant democracy: in...

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