In the history of thought, Lester Frank Ward is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Lester Frank Ward as American sociologist and paleontologist (1841-1913).
Lester Frank Ward was born at Joliet in 1841. His recorded nationality is United States. He studied at George Washington University.
The nineteenth century produced systems on a grand scale, and then the reaction against them.
His academic posts were held at United States Geological Survey, Smithsonian Institution and Brown University.
The discipline keeps its dead in print, because the arguments are still open.
That the work was done from United States matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Lester Frank Ward died in 1913, aged 72. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Held posts at United States Geological Survey, Smithsonian Institution and Brown University
