Winthrop Pickard Bell

Winthrop Pickard Bell (May 12, 1884 – April 4, 1965) was a Canadian academic who taught philosophy at the University of Toronto and Harvard.[1][2][3] He is however perhaps best known for his work as a historian of Nova Scotia.[4]

He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and educated at Mount Allison University, McGill University, Harvard University (where he studied under Josiah Royce, about whose theory of knowledge he was later to write his doctoral dissertation),[5][6][7] the University of Leipzig, and finally at the University of Göttingen (where he completed his doctoral studies under Edmund Husserl).[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]

Engraving by Winthorp P. Bell on a cell-door in the Karzer of Göttingen University

Edith Stein was among his friends during his Göttingen period.[19][20]

During the First World War he was held in the civilian internment camp at Ruhleben, near Berlin, for more than three years.[21][22] After the war he taught philosophy at the University of Toronto and at Harvard University,[23] which he left in 1927 to pursue a career in business.[24][25][26]

In his latter years he focused his energies on historical research, much of which concerned the group of mid-18th-Century immigrants to Nova Scotia known as the "Foreign Protestants".[27] His most notable publication was The "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia, which was published by the University of Toronto Press in 1961; his Register of the Foreign Protestants of Nova Scotia was published some years after his death.[28]

References

  1. ↑ http://nasepblog.ophen.org/tag/winthrop-bell/
  2. ↑ Cairns, Dorion. The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl. p. v.
  3. ↑ http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789400750425
  4. ↑ http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/collectionsp-bin/colldisp/l=0/c=40
  5. ↑ http://fordham.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5422/fordham/9780823255283.001.0001/upso-9780823255283-chapter-5
  6. ↑ http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/the-relevance-of-royce/
  7. ↑ http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/pluralist.6.1.0046?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
  8. ↑ http://www.mta.ca/wpbell/bio.htm
  9. ↑ http://www.mta.ca/wpbell/mta.htm
  10. ↑ http://www.mta.ca/wpbell/fureduc.htm
  11. ↑ http://www.mta.ca/wpbell/doc.htm
  12. ↑ Sheehan, Thomas. Becoming Heidegger: On the Trail of His Early Occasional Writings, 1910-1927. p. 187.
  13. ↑ http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/becoming-heidegger
  14. ↑ Spiegelberg, Herbert. The Phenomenological Movement: A Historical Introduction. p. 128.
  15. ↑ http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789024725779
  16. ↑ Spiegelberg, Herbert. The Context of the Phenomenological Movement. p. 93.
  17. ↑ http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789024723928
  18. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236767657_How_to_Read_the_Logical_Investigations_About_Husserl%27s_Guide_for_the_Reader_and_a_Rediscovered_Typescript_of_It
  19. ↑ MacIntyre, Alasdair. Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue. p. 16.
  20. ↑ Stein, Edith (2014). Letters to Roman Ingarden. Washington, D.C.: ICS Publications. ISBN 978-1-939272-25-6.
  21. ↑ http://www.mta.ca/wpbell/ruh.htm
  22. ↑ https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=symposium&id=symposium_2012_0016_0002_0034_0046
  23. ↑ Cairns, Dorion (1973). "My Own Life". In Kersten, Frederick; Zaner, Richard M. Phenomenology:Continuation and Criticism. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. pp. 5–6. ISBN 978-94-010-2379-5.
  24. ↑ http://www.mta.ca/wpbell/teach.htm
  25. ↑ http://www.mta.ca/wpbell/bus.htm
  26. ↑ Spiegelberg, Herbert. The Context of the Phenomenological Movement. p. 229.
  27. ↑ http://www.mta.ca/wpbell/hist.htm
  28. ↑ http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/biblio/author/7063
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