John Cook Wilson

Personal life

Cook Wilson's most important extra-curricular activity was the development of tactics for military bicycle units to which he also devoted some publications and the Army Cyclist Corps which was formed at his suggestion. He married Charlotte Schneider, whom he had met in Germany, in 1876, but she had predeceased him in January 1914. also a scholar at Balliol (1898–1902) who later moved to South Africa. Cook Wilson died at his home in North Oxford on 11 August 1915, from pernicious anemia.

Writings Aristotelian Studies I. On the Structure of the Seventh Book of the Nicomachean Ethics, ch. i–x, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1871, second edition, 1912. On the Interpretation of Plato's Timaeus. Critical Studies with Reference to a Recent Edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889. On an Evolutionist Theory of the Axioms, An Inaugural Lecture, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889. 'Inverse or "a posteriori" Probability', Nature, 13 December 1900, pp. 154–6. 'Probability—James Bernoulli's Theorem', Nature, 14 March 1901, pp. 465–6. 'On the Geometrical Problem in Plato's Meno, 86e sqq.: With a Note on a Passage in the Treatise De Lineis Insecabilibus', The Journal of Philology, 1 January 1903, pp. 222–240. 'On the Platonist Doctrine of the ἀσύμβλητοι ἀριθμοί', The Classical Review, vol. 18 (1904), pp. 247–60. 'Lewis Carroll's Logical Paradox', Mind, vol.14 (1905), pp. 292–293. With correction, Mind, vol. 14 (1905), p. 439. Statement and Inference and other Philosophical Papers, ed. A. S. L. Farquharson, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926; new edition, Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2002.

A full list of Cook Wilson's publications can be found in Statement and Inference, ed. A.S.L. Farquharson, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926, pp. lxvi–lxxii.