34 Facts About Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college.

Samuel Alexander is best known as an advocate of emergentism in biology.

Samuel Alexander was born into a Jewish family at 436 George Street, Sydney, Australia, the third son of Samuel Alexander, a prosperous saddler, and Eliza nee Sloman.

Samuel Alexander's father died around the time he was born, of tuberculosis.

Eliza moved the family to St Kilda, Victoria in 1863 or 1864, and Alexander was tutored, and placed at a private school.

Samuel Alexander matriculated at the University of Melbourne on 22 March 1875.

Samuel Alexander completed the first two years with distinction, but then left without taking a degree.

In May 1877, Samuel Alexander sailed for England in an attempt to win a scholarship at Oxford or Cambridge.

Samuel Alexander was successful at Balliol College, Oxford, and matriculated there on 28 January 1878.

Samuel Alexander remained as philosophy tutor at Lincoln College to 1893.

Samuel Alexander made three unsuccessful attempts before he was appointed at Owens College, Manchester in 1893.

Samuel Alexander introduced experimental psychology at Manchester in 1907, in unorthodox fashion, with the appointment of Tom Pear, later a professor.

Samuel Alexander invited John Macmurray to be a lecturer in the philosophy department in 1919.

Samuel Alexander was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1908 to 1911, and again from 1936 to 1937.

Collingwood later contended that Samuel Alexander had "philosophical genius of very high order".

In 1924 Samuel Alexander retired from his chair, and was succeeded by John Leofric Stocks.

In 1924, Samuel Alexander sat for the sculptor Jacob Epstein, who made two copies of a bust.

Samuel Alexander was Herbert Spencer lecturer at Oxford in 1927, and in 1930 the Order of Merit was conferred on him, the first to a native of Australia.

Samuel Alexander was unmarried and his ashes lie in Manchester Southern cemetery.

Samuel Alexander left money to the University of Jerusalem and the University of Manchester.

Samuel Alexander's papers were left to the John Rylands Library.

The building formerly known as Humanities Lime Grove at the University of Manchester was renamed the Samuel Alexander Building, in 2007.

Samuel Alexander contributed articles on philosophical subjects to Mind, the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, and the International Journal of Ethics.

Samuel Alexander was influenced by T H Green, in whose memory the prize had been set up, but diverged from his views in pursuing evolutionary ethics.

Samuel Alexander was appointed Gifford lecturer at Glasgow in 1915, and delivered his lectures in the winters of 1917 and 1918.

In 1933, Samuel Alexander published Beauty and Other Forms of Value, mainly an essay in aesthetics.

Two key concepts for Samuel Alexander are those of an "emergent quality" and the idea of emergent evolution:.

Samuel Alexander's idea was to start with space and time, each of which he regarded as inconceivable without the other, in fact mutually equivalent.

Samuel Alexander's thinking, as he said, originated in Instinct and Experience by C Lloyd Morgan; who went on in 1922 to give an exposition of emergent properties.

Pure spacetime emerges, through a process Samuel Alexander describes simply as "motion", the stuff and matter that make up our material world:.

In other words, for Samuel Alexander motion is primitive, and space and time are defined through relations between motions.

Samuel Alexander's sister became his hostess and on Wednesday evenings there were informal social gatherings.

Samuel Alexander was an "unofficial godfather" to writer Naomi Mitchison nee Haldane, born in 1897.

Samuel Alexander took an interest in her studies, and wrote her long letters.