David Frederick Bowers Explained

David Frederick Bowers (October 20, 1906, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – July 17, 1945, Springfield, Massachusetts) was a philosophy professor,^[1] noteworthy as a Guggenheim Fellow.^[2]

Bowers graduated from Capital University with A.B. in 1929 and from Princeton University with A.M. in 1930 and Ph.D. in 1932. In Princeton University's philosophy department, he was an instructor from 1934 to 1938 and an assistant professor beginning in 1938. He was also an instructor at Harvard University and Radcliffe College in 1938.^[2]

Bowers was the co-editor with George Tapley Whitney (1871–1938)^[3] of The Heritage of Kant (1939); Bowers contributed two papers to the collection of 17 papers.^{[4] [5] [6]} His 1932 doctoral dissertation Atomism, Empiricism, and Skepticism (on the philosophies of David Hume and Bertrand Russell) was published as a 44-page booklet in 1940. He was the editor of Foreign Influences in American Life (1944); he contributed two of the eight essays in the collection.^{[7] [8] [9]} He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1943–1944.^[2] He participated in the Kahler-Kreis.^[10]

In 1945 he was killed in a railroad train accident while en route with his wife and two children for a Vermont vacation.^[1]

References

1. Professor Bowers (obituary notice). Princeton Alumni Weekly. 46. 6. 10 August 1945. 3.
2. Web site: David F. Bowers. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
3. Obituary. George T. Whitney. Princeton Alumni Weekly. 39. 9. 210. 25 November 1938.
4. 10.1017/S0031819100002461. Review of The Heritage of Kant. Edited by George Tapley Whitney and David F. Bowers. Philosophy. 16. 62. 220–221. 1941. Drever. James. James Drever.
5. 10.2307/2103171. 2103171. Review of The Heritage of Kant, edited by George Tabley Whitney and David F. Bowers. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 2. 3. 414. 1942. Lee. Otis. Otis Hamilton Lee.
6. 10.2307/2017865. 2017865. Review of The Heritage of Kant, edited by George Tapley Whitney and David F. Bowers. The Journal of Philosophy. 37. 22. 608. 1940. Kraushaar. Otto F.. Otto Kraushaar.
7. 10.2307/2019752. 2019752. Review of Foreign Influences in American Life. Essays and Critical Bibliographies, edited by David F. Bowers. The Journal of Philosophy. 41. 24. 669. 1944. Blau. Joseph L.. Joseph Leon Blau.
8. Jones, Howard Mumford. Howard Mumford Jones. Review of Foreign Influences in American Life, edited by David F. Bowers. New England Quarterly. 18. 1. 547. 1945. 10.2307/361084. 361084.
9. Review of Foreign Influences in American Life, edited by David F. Bowers. Monthly Review - Immigrationa and Naturalization Service. 2. 5. 65–66. November 1944.
10. Book: Eileen Simpson

    . Simpson, Eileen. Eileen Simpson. Poets in Their Youth: A Memoir. 21 October 2014. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 978-0-374-71300-3. 98.