William Ernest Hocking [SEP] place of death
William Ernest Hocking
William Ernest Hocking (August 10, 1873 – June 12, 1966) was an American idealist philosopher at Harvard University. He continued the work of his philosophical teacher Josiah Royce (the founder of American idealism) in revising idealism to integrate and fit into empiricism, naturalism and pragmatism. He said that metaphysics has to make inductions from experience: "That which does not work is not true." His major field of study was the philosophy of religion, but his 22 books included discussions of philosophy and
— The Idea of Immortality and Western Civilization
- 1931: Julius Seelye Bixler — Immortality and the Present Mood
- 1932: William Pepperell Montague — The Chances of Surviving Death
- 1933: Shailer Mathews — Immortality and the Cosmic Process
- 1934: Walter Eugene Clark — Indian Conceptions of Immortality
- 1935: C. H. Dodd — The Communion of Saints
- 1936: William Ernest Hocking — Meanings of Death
- 1937: George Lyman Kittredge — The Old Teutonic Idea of the Future Life
- 1938