About W.R. Boyce Gibson
Lived 1869 – 1935 (aged 66). W.R. Boyce Gibson was a philosopher.
William Ralph Boyce Gibson (15 March 1869 – 2 April 1935) was a British-Australian philosopher. He was an advocate of personal idealism.
Biography He was born in Paris, the son of Reverend William Gibson, a Methodist minister and his wife Helen Wilhelmina, daughter of William Binnington Boyce.
He married Lucy Judge Peacock in 1898; they had five children including Alexander Boyce Gibson, Ralph Siward Gibson and Quentin Boyce Gibson.
In 1911 he was appointed to the chair of mental and moral philosophy at the University of Melbourne, a position he held until his retirement in 1934.
Gibson died in Surrey Hills, Victoria. Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy of Life (1906) The Problem of Logic (1908, 1914) God with Us: A Study in Religious Idealism (1909)
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British-Australian philosopher (1869–1935)
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W.R. Boyce Gibson was born on 15 March 1869.
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W.R. Boyce Gibson was a philosopher.
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