Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Addison Webster Moore

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The result of the debate was keep. Mackensen (talk) 05:25, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Addison Webster Moore

This substub reads, verbatim: "Addison Webster Moore (1866 - 1930) was a U.S. pragmatist philosopher." End of stub. Google returns 30 matches for Addison Webster Moore. [1] Is the availability of this subject a benefit to our readers? GRider\^talk 18:22, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Searching JSTOR, I get a few things written by him and an article "Addison Webster Moore: Defender of Instrumentalism", by Benjamin Wolstein, in the Journal of the History of Ideas 1949. Wolstein writes: "Moore carried on his work in logic and ethics in the seminars at the University of Chicago. Though never fully published, it has wielded a powerful influence over a long line of students and teachers of philosophy." Wolstein then goes on to say that the evaluation of AWM has been difficult because his papers were not made available to him. He concludes: "His place in American philosophy, when assessed by his meagre writings, definitely hinges upon what becomes of the experimental naturalism of which he was a founding father." I will leave to someone else to read the whole article, but this seems at the very least to be a case where "Wikipedia is not paper" can be applied. / u p p l a n d 19:10, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, it's helpful. Wyss 20:30, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, a quick scan of some of the pages listed on Google indicates that Moore was a close colleague of John Dewey and was influential in the development of the instrumentalism version of pragmatism. Zzyzx11 23:43, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I have expanded a little. JoaoRicardo 07:00, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, and expand, influential. Megan1967 09:23, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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