History of the Department |
Below are reproductions of portraits and photographs of some of our famous faculty.
More information about many of these and other figures from our long history can be found here. Readers may also wish to consult items from this list as well. |
The "Golden Age": 1870s - c. 1910s |
| The five philosophers of the "Golden Age" of philosophy at Harvard. |
Josiah Royce
1854 - 1916 |
George Santayana
1863 - 1953 |
William James
1842 - 1910 |
Hugo Münsterberg
1863 - 1916 |
George Herbert Palmer
1842 - 1933 |
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c. 1910s - c. 1950s |
Alfred North Whitehead
1861 - 1947 |
Ralph Barton Perry
1876 - 1957 |
C. I. Lewis
1883 - 1964 |
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Faculty of the Department, 1929 |
Front row (l-r): Ralph Barton Perry, Alfred North Whitehead, James Houghton Woods, James W. Miller (instructor), John Wild (instructor), Henry Maurice Sheffer.
Back row (l-r): C.I. Lewis, Kerby Sinclair Miller (instructor), Ralph M. Blake (visitor), Ralph Eaton, William Ernest Hocking. |
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Rudolph Carnap
1891 - 1970 |
During the 1940-1941 academic year, both Rudolph Carnap and Bertrand Russell were visiting professors in the Department.
Alfred Tarski was also a visiting professor at Harvard that academic year, in the Department of Mathematics. |
Bertrand Russell
1872 - 1970
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c. 1950s - 2000 |
W.V.O. Quine
1908 - 2000 |
Nelson Goodman
1906 - 1998 |
John Rawls
1926 - 2002 |
Roderick Firth
1917 - 1987 |
Robert Nozick
1938 - 2002 |
| For information about Richard B. Angell, an alumnus of the Department during this time, please visit http://www.rbangell.com/. |
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