William Pepperell Montague

{{Short description|American philosopher (1873–1953)}}

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William Pepperell Montague (11 November 1873 – 1 August 1953) was an American philosopher of the New Realist school. Montague stressed the difference between his philosophical peers as adherents of either "objective" and "critical realism".

Montague was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He earned his bachelors, masters, and doctorate from Harvard University.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=apapa&id=apapa_2013_0143_0146_705|title=Biography: William Pepperell Montague|first=Richard T.|last=Hull|date=1 January 2013|journal=The American Philosophical Association Centennial Series|pages=143–146|accessdate=7 April 2023|via=www.pdcnet.org|doi=10.5840/apapa2013705}} He was professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley between 1899 and 1903, and at Columbia University from 1903 to 1947. He was president of the American Philosophical Association's eastern division in the years 1923–1924.{{cite web|url=http://www.pragmatism.org/dmap/names_generations.htm |title=Entries in the Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers |accessdate=2008-10-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820203836/http://www.pragmatism.org/dmap/names_generations.htm |archivedate=August 20, 2008 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.pragmatism.org/dmap/apa_presidents.htm |title=Chronological list of Presidents of The American Philosophical Association, 1901–2000 |accessdate=2008-10-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820203719/http://www.pragmatism.org/dmap/apa_presidents.htm |archivedate=August 20, 2008 }} He died in New York City.

Montague was an advocate of panpsychism and proposed his own variant known as hylopsychism which developed the connection between energy and mind, contending that the physical manifestation of mind occurs as potential energy.Skrbina, David. (2017). Panpsychism in the West. MIT Press. pp. 195-196