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Chauncey Wright

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  • Chauncey Wright was an American philosopher of science of the second half of the nineteenth century and an early proponent of Darwinism in the United States.

    Chauncey Wright De Groot, Jean 2009

  • Chauncey Wright was a village philosopher whose village happened to be Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    The Socrates of Cambridge Menand, Louis 2001

  • Knowing that Chauncey Wright and C.S. Peirce daily discussed Kant's philosophy for two years at

    PRAGMATISM PHILIP P. WIENER 1968

  • My dear Wallace, -- I send by this post a review by Chauncey Wright, as I much want your opinion of it, as soon as you can send it.

    Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

  • Chauncey Wright points out that the words omitted are "essential to the point on which he [Mr. Mivart] cites Mr. Darwin's authority."

    Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

  • It was proposed many years ago in sport by the late deeply-lamented Chauncey Wright, and, as far as we know, has never yet appeared in print, though it may live to be gravely noted down in some future Variorum, being a genuine echo of many a note by Zachary

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

  • April number, by Chauncey Wright, contains a new view of the law of

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

  • Chauncey Wright, Francis Wharton, Dennett, John Fiske, or their equivalents in learning and lecture, were seen there, among three or four law students like Brooks Adams.

    Failure (1871) 1918

  • Chauncey Wright points out that the words omitted are “essential to the point on which he [Mr. Mivart] cites Mr. Darwin's authority.”

    Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

  • Behind the bare phenomenal facts, as my tough-minded old friend Chauncey Wright, the great Harvard empiricist of my youth, used to say, there is NOTHING.

    Pragmatism William James 1876

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