Josiah Royce
American philosopher
Josiah Royce was an American Pragmatist and objective idealist philosopher and the founder of American idealism. His philosophical ideas included his joining of pragmatism and idealism, his philosophy of loyalty, and his defense of absolutism. Wikipedia
Born: November 20, 1855, Grass Valley, CA
Died: September 14, 1916 (age 60 years), Cambridge, MA
Influenced: George Santayana, George Herbert Mead, C. I. Lewis, and more
Education: Lowell High School (1871), University of California, Berkeley, and Johns Hopkins University
Parents: Sarah Royce
Spouse: Katharine Head Royce (m. 1880)