F. C. S. Schiller 1864 – 1937

Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller was a British philosopher of pragmatism, holding for many years a fellowship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He gave pragmatism the alternative name humanism and engaged in a long polemic with the dominant British idealism of Bradley and Bosanquet. His Riddles of the Sphinx, Studies in Humanism, and Logic for Use developed his thesis that human purposes pervade all of inquiry and that logic must therefore be a logic of useful thought rather than of timeless validity. He spent his later years at the University of Southern California.