David Wight Prall was a philosopher of art and an academic.
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11 Facts About David Prall
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David Prall's interests include aesthetics, value theory, abstract ideas, truth and the history of philosophy.
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David Prall obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, having studied mathematics, chemistry, English and German literature.
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David Prall completed his masters degree on German studies and rhetoric in the same institution.
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David Prall then received his PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1918.
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David Prall taught at Cornell, the University of Texas, Amherst, and the University of California.
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David Prall died on 21 October 1940 in Berkeley, CA, while on sabbatical from Harvard.
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David Prall criticized the positivist standards of beauty and academic inquiry.
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David Prall maintained that the aesthetics field is not a rarified cerebral space reserved for the specialist.
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David Prall devoted a significant part of his work, Aesthetic Judgment, to this concept and proposed linking it to content.
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