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PORTER, NOAH (18111892)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 117 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
PORTER, NOAH (18111892) , American educationalist and philosophical writer, was born in Farmington, Connecticut, on the 14th of December 1811. He graduated at Yale College, 1831, and laboured as a Congregational minister in Connecticut and
Massachusetts
 , 18361846. He was elected professor of moral philosophy and metaphysics at Yale in 1846, and from 1871 to 1886 he was president of the college. He edited several editions of Noah
Webster
 's English dictionary, and wrote on education, &c. His best-known
work
  is The Human Intellect, with an Introduction upon Psychology and the Human Soul (1868), comprehending a general history of philosophy, and following in
part
  the " common-sense " philosophy of the Scottish school, while accepting the Kantian
doctrine
  of intuition, and declaring the notion of
design
  to be a priori. He died in New Haven on the 4th of
March
  1892.


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