Abraham Wolf

Abraham Wolf
Born	1876
Died	1948
Residence	Professor of Philosophy, University College, London; 12 Kewferry Road, Northwood, Middlesex
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow elected_AI 1921.11.01

Notes

House Notes

1921.10.25proposed by W.H.R. Rivers, seconded by F.C. Shrubsall

Notes From Elsewhere

Abraham Wolf (1876-1948) was a historian of ideas and of science, a rabbi of the Manchester Reform Synagogue, and scholar of philosophy, logic and scientific method. Wolf attended Jews’ College in London, a seminary for the training of Jewish ministers, and also studied at London University, graduating with honors in Semitic studies and mental and moral philosophy, respectively. He won a scholarship to St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he completed his doctorate. He later became a professor of logic and scientific method at University College London and in the Department of Logic and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. He was a co-editor of the 14th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, authored several textbooks on logic and scientific method, and after his retirement in 1941 wrote about higher education in Nazi Germany and German-occupied countries.

Publications

External Publications

The existential import of categorical predication; studies in logic. Cambridge, University Press, 1905.

The philosophy of Nietzsche. London, Constable & Co., 1915.

Exercises in logic and scientific method. London, G. Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1919.

Spinoza and time. London, [1921]

Spinoza, the conciliator. Hagae Comitis [Societas Spinozana] 1922.

Essentials of scientific method. London, G. Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1925.

Essentials of logic. London, G. Allen & Unwin [1926]

Huxley and Spinoza. Hagae Comitis [Societas Spinozana] 1926.

Spinoza. Journal of philosophical studies. v. 2, no. 5. Publisher: [London] Macmillan [1927]

Textbook of logic. New York, Macmillan Co., 1930.

A history of science, technology and philosophy in the 16 th. and 17 th. centuries. London : Allen et Unwin, 1935.

Higher education in Nazi Germany; or, Education for world-conquest. London, Methuen & Co. [1944]

Spinoza (1632-1677): the library of the late Prof. Dr. A. Wolf, head of the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, University of London. Amsterdam: Internationaal Antiquariaat (Menno Hertzberger), [1950]

A history of science, technology, & philosophy in the 18th century. Vol. 1 by A. Wolf; D. McKie. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1961.

A history of science, technology, and philosophy in the eighteenth century. Vol. 2. London: Allen & Unwin, 1962.

A history of science, technology, and philosophy in the 16th & 17th centuries, by A. Wolf; Friedrich Dannemann; A. Armitage. New York: Harper, 1959 (new editions until 1999)