Thomas Whittaker (metaphysician)

Thomas Whittaker (1856-1935) was an English metaphysician and critic.

Works

• The Philosophy of History (1893)
• The Neoplatonists: A Study in the History of Hellenism (1901), third impression 1928
• Origins of Christianity (1904), fourth edition 1933
• Apollonius of Tyana and Other Essays (1906)
• The Liberal State (1907)
• Priests, Philosophers, and Prophets (1911)
• The Theory of Abstract Ethics (1916)
• The Metaphysics of Evolution, (1926)
• His Prolegomena to a New Metaphysic (1931)
• Reason (1934)

Contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography

He wrote several lives for the Dictionary of National Biography, signing as T. W-r.

• Thomas Bedwell
• William Bewley
• John Bonnycastle
• Henry Briggs (1561-1630)

Works about Whittaker

• “Whittaker, Thomas,” in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 by Foster, Joseph, Oxford: Parker and Co., 1888-1892.
• The Times, 1935, Obituary: Thomas Whittaker. Metaphysician and critic