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John Fiske (philosopher)

John Fiske (March 30, 1842 – July 4, 1901) was an American philosopher and historian. He was heavily influenced by Herbert Spencer and applied Spencer's concepts of evolution to his own writings on linguistics, philosophy, religion, and history.[1]

John Fiske

Edmund Fiske Green

(1842-03-30)March 30, 1842
Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.

July 4, 1901(1901-07-04) (aged 59)

Gloucester, Massachusetts, U.S.

Harvard University

19th-century philosophy

Western philosophy

(1861)

"Mr. Buckle's Fallacies"

The Progress From Brute to Man from the North American Review 1871

Online text

Myths and Myth Makers (1872) ( )

Online publication

(1874)

Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy

The Unseen World (1876) ( )

Online publication

(1879; revised and enlarged, 1885)

Darwinism and Other Essays

(1883)

Excursions of an Evolutionist

(1884)

The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of his Origin

(1885)

The Idea of God as Affected by Modern Knowledge

Origin of Evil (1899)

(1899)

A Century of Science and Other Essays

(1899)

Through Nature to God

(the Ingersoll Lecture, 1901)

Life Everlasting

American philosophy

List of American philosophers

Mount Fiske

wikisource-logo.svg This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Fiske, John (1842-1901)". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Richardson, Charles Francis (1911). "Fiske, John". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 437–438.

public domain

Fiske, John. (1884). The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of his Origin. Macmillan (reissued by , 2009; ISBN 978-1-108-00513-5)

Cambridge University Press

Berman, Milton (2000). . American National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1400192.

"Fiske, John"

Commager, Henry Steele (1936–41). "John Fiske: An Interpretation," Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. 66, pp. 332–345.

Sanders, J.B. (1930). "John Fiske," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 264–277.

Saum, Lewis O. (1985). "John Fiske and the West," Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 47–68.

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