James Hayden Tufts Explained

James Hayden Tufts (1862 - August 5, 1942),^[1] an influential American philosopher, was a professor of the then newly founded Chicago University. Tufts was also a member of the Board of Arbitration, and the chairman of a committee of the social agencies of Chicago. The work Ethics in 1908 (with a second edition appearing in 1932) was a collaboration of Tufts and John Dewey. Tufts believed in a conception of mutual influences which he saw as opposed in both Marxism and idealism.

Tufts was born in Monson Massachusetts and attended his father's school. He was an 1884 graduate of Amherst College; received a B.D. from Yale University in 1889 (where he won the John Addison Porter Prize), an M.A. from Amherst College in 1890, and his Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg under Alois Riehl in 1892. With John Dewey and George Herbert Mead (both of whom Tufts was instrumental in bringing to the University), Tufts was a co-founder of the Chicago School of Pragmatism. Tufts was a longstanding chairman of the Department of Philosophy and at one time was the acting president of Chicago University.

Tufts sat on the editorial committee of The American Journal of Theology in 1918,^[2] 1919,^[3] and 1920.^[4] He edited the journal Ethics from October 1914 through 1931.

Selected works

Books

• Book: James Tufts: A Memorial . . 1902 . Tufts . James Hayden . James Hayden Tufts . Chicago . en-US . Internet Archive.
• Book: Dewey, John . Ethics . Tufts . James H. . . 1908 . New York . en-US . John Dewey . James Hayden Tufts . Internet Archive.
• Book: Tufts, James Hayden . Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude . . 1917 . New York . 354–408 . en-US . The Moral Life and the Construction of Values and Standards . https://archive.org/details/creativeintelli02moorgoog/page/n366/mode/2up . Internet Archive.
• Book: Tufts, James Hayden . America's Social Morality: Dilemmas of the Changing Mores . . 1933 . New York . en-US . Internet Archive.

Articles

• Tufts . James Hayden . April 1908 . The Adjustment of the Church to the Psychological Conditions of the Present . . 12 . 2 . 177–188 . 3155126 . free.
• Tufts . James Hayden . James Hayden Tufts . Lyman . Eugene W. . Sneath . E. Hershey . January 1910 . The Ultimate Test of Religious Truth: Is It Historical or Philosophical? . . 14 . 1 . 16–46 . 3154901 . free.
• Tufts . James Hayden . James Hayden Tufts . April 1912 . Recent Discussions of Moral Evolution . . 5 . 2 . 155–179 . 1507425 . free.
• Tufts . James Hayden . James Hayden Tufts . January 1916 . The Ethics of the Family . . 26 . 2 . 223–240 . 2376622 . free.
• Tufts . James Hayden . James Hayden Tufts . September 1926 . A University Chapel . . en-US . 6 . 5 . 449–456 . 1195286 . free.
• Tufts . James Hayden . James Hayden Tufts . September 1933 . A Social Philosopher's Idea of Good Government . . 169 . The Crisis of Democracy . 193–201 . 1017769.
• Tufts . James Hayden . James Hayden Tufts . March 1935 . The Institution as Agency of Stability and Readjustment in Ethics . . 44 . 2 . 138–153 . 10.2307/2179852 . 2179852.
• Tufts . James Hayden . James Hayden Tufts . April 1936 . Liberal Movements in the United States--Their Methods and Aims . . 46 . 3 . 253–275 . 2989265.

External links

• James H. Tufts Papers, 1782-1942 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Special Collections Research Center
  • James Hayden Tufts (AC 1884) Papers at the Amherst College Archives & Special Collections
  • Guide to the James Hayden Tufts Papers 1908-1942 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center

Notes and References

1. October 1942 . Memorial Note . Ethics . 53 . 1 . 78 . 2988855.
2. January 1918 . Front Matter . . 22 . 1 . i . 3155872 . free.
3. January 1919 . Front Matter . . 23 . 1 . i . 3155380 . free.
4. January 1920 . Front Matter . . 24 . 1 . i . 3155934 . free.