James Samuel Coleman wrote at a period when the questions philosophy asked were themselves being renegotiated.
The record lists James Samuel Coleman as American sociologist (1926–1995).
James Samuel Coleman was born at Bedford in 1926. His recorded nationality is United States. He studied at Purdue University and Columbia University.
Twentieth-century philosophy was marked by war, exile and ideology; many of its central figures wrote in flight or under censorship.
His academic posts were held at University of Chicago, Stanford University and Johns Hopkins University.
The recorded fields of work are philosophy and sociology.
Philosophical influence is measured in the questions a thinker made unavoidable.
That the work was done from United States matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
James Samuel Coleman died in 1995, aged 69. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Chicago, Stanford University and Johns Hopkins University
- Fields: philosophy and sociology
