Grace de Laguna

Grace Mead de Laguna (28 September 1878 – 17 February 1978) was an American philosopher who taught at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.

Life Grace Mead Andrus was born on 28 September 1878 in East Berlin, Connecticut. She was the youngest child, and only daughter, of Wallace R. Andrus and Annis Andrus (née Mead). Both parents were of Connecticut ancestry dating back to the 17th century. Her mother, Annis, had been a school teacher. He would later work as a land agent for the Northern Pacific Railway whilst it was being built. And, upon presentation of a dissertation titled “The Mechanical Theory in Pre-Kantian Rationalism”, she received her PhD in philosophy there in 1906.

After holding a position at the University of Michigan from 1905, Grace became an assistant professor there in 1912, an associate professor in 1916 and a full professor in 1928. She became chair of philosophy at Bryn Mawr after Theodore's death in 1930. She would retire as Professor Emerita in 1944.

Grace de Laguna died, aged 99, on 17 February 1978 in Devon, Pennsylvania.

Works Books Dogmatism and Evolution: Studies in Modern Philosophy, with Theodore de Laguna (New York, 1910). [At Internet Archive] Speech: Its Function and Evolution (New Haven, Conn., 1927). [At Internet Archive] On Existence and the Human World (New Haven, Conn., 1963).

Articles/Book chapters The Practical Character of Reality in The Philosophical Review, vol. 18, no. 4, 1909, pp. 396–415. Phenomena and Their Determination in The Philosophical Review, vol. 26, no. 6, 1917, pp. 622–633. The Limits of the Physical in Philosophical Essays in Honor of James Edwin Creighton (1917) [At Internet Archive] Internet Archive