In the history of thought, Philip Jourdain is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Philip Jourdain as British logician (1879–1919).
Philip Jourdain was born at Ashbourne in 1879. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He studied at Cheltenham College and University of Cambridge.
Around the turn of the twentieth century philosophy split into traditions that largely stopped reading one another.
The discipline keeps its dead in print, because the arguments are still open.
That the work was done from United Kingdom matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Philip Jourdain died in 1919, aged 40. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
