Hartley Burr Alexander belongs to the philosophical record as a figure whose arguments outlasted the disputes that prompted them.
The record lists Hartley Burr Alexander as American philosopher, writer, educator, scholar, poet and iconographer (1873-1939).
Hartley Burr Alexander was born at Lincoln in 1873. His recorded nationality is United States. He studied at Columbia University.
Around the turn of the twentieth century philosophy split into traditions that largely stopped reading one another.
Philosophy advances by objection: an argument matters if serious people spend years attacking it.
That the work was done from United States matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Hartley Burr Alexander died in 1939, aged 66. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
