John Wisdom, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Wisdom

philosopher

Date of Birth: 12-Sep-1904

Place of Birth: Leyton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 09-Dec-1993

Profession: psychologist, philosopher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Arthur John Terence Dibben Wisdom (12 September 1904, Leyton, Essex – 9 December 1993, Cambridge), usually cited as John Wisdom, was a leading British philosopher considered to be an ordinary language philosopher, a philosopher of mind and a metaphysician.
He was influenced by G.E.
Moore, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Sigmund Freud, and in turn explained and extended their work. Wisdom was educated at Aldeburgh Lodge School, Suffolk, and Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge, where he graduated with a first-class BA degree in Moral Sciences in 1924.
He is not to be confused with the philosopher John Oulton Wisdom (1908–1993), his cousin, who shared his interest in psychoanalysis.