Ralph Tyler Flewelling was an American

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 philosophy

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 professor

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, born ar De Witt

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, Mich.

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, and educated at the University of Michigan

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, Alma College (Mich.)

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. the Garrett Biblical Institute (Evanston, Ill.), and Boston University

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. He was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1896, holding pastorates from 1903 to 1917, and in the latter year becoming professor

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 and head of the department of philosophy in the University of Southern California

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. In 1918 he was at the Sorbonne

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, Paris

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, and was appointed head of the department of philosophy at the American Expeditionary Force University at Beaune

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, France

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. He is the author of:

• Christ and the Dramas of Doubt (1913)
• Personalism and the Problems of Philosophy (1915)
• Philosophy and the War (1918)
• Bergson and Personal Realism (1919)

He also contributed to the Hastings Encyclopœdia of Religion and Ethics (1917), and founded and edited The Personalist (1920). In 1919-20 he was president of the Celtic Club.

See also

• American philosophy
  American philosophy
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• List of American philosophers