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{{Short description|American philosopher}}
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'''Addison Webster Moore''' (30 July 1866 – 25 August 1930) was a [[United States of America|U.S.]] [[pragmatism|pragmatist]] [[philosopher]]. He was president of the [[Western Philosophical Association]] in 1911 and president of the [[American Philosophical Association]] in 1917.

He was born in [[Plainfield, Indiana]], United States. He studied at [[DePauw University]], earning an [[Bachelor of Arts|A.B.]] in 1890 and an [[Master of Arts|A.M.]] in 1893. He then studied at [[Cornell University|Cornell]] (1893–94) and took his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in 1898 at the [[University of Chicago]], attracted by [[John Dewey]]'s arrival there. When Dewey went to [[Columbia University]] in 1904, Moore took over the [[Metaphysics]] and [[Logic]] courses at Chicago, and became [[professor]] of philosophy in 1909.

Moore was a supporter of Dewey's [[Instrumentalism|instrumentalist]] version of pragmatism. In 1910, he published ''Pragmatism and Its Critics'', consisting of one chapter explaining pragmatism and four chapters addressing criticisms directed towards this doctrine.

== Bibliography ==
* ''The functional versus the representational theories of knowledge in Locke's Essay'', Chicago, The University of Chicago press, 1902. 
* ''Existence, Meaning, and Reality in Locke's Essay and in Present Epistemology'', Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1903. 
* ''Pragmatism and its critics'', Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago press, 1910. 
* with John Dewey (and al.), Creative intelligence : essays in the pragmatic attitude, New York : H. Holt and Company, 1917. 
* ''The Collected Writings of Addison W. Moore'', 3 vol., John R. Shook (ed.), Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2003. {{ISBN|1-84371-002-1}}

==See also==
*[[American philosophy]]
*[[List of American philosophers]]

==External links==
*[http://www.pragmatism.org/genealogy/moore.htm Moore at the Pragmatist Cybrary]. Includes a short biography and a list of Moore's writings.
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