Philosopher

Samuel Alexander

Australian-born British metaphysician — Space, Time and Deity and the doctrine of emergence

University of Manchester · United Kingdom · d. 6 January 1859 (Sydney) — 13 September 1938 (Manchester)

Born in Sydney and educated at Melbourne and Balliol, he became in 1882 the first Jewish fellow of an Oxford or Cambridge college, at Lincoln, and held the chair of philosophy at Manchester from 1893 to 1924. His Gifford Lectures at Glasgow became Space, Time and Deity (1920), which made space-time the basic stuff of reality and mind, life and deity qualities that emerge from it. He received the Order of Merit in 1930.