Raphael Demos
Raphael Demos | |
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 Demos in 1927 | |
| Born | Raphael Demetracopoulos January 23, 1892 |
| Died | August 8, 1968 (aged 76) aboard ship, en route to the U.S. |
| Other name | Raphael S. Demos |
| Citizenship | American (from 1921) |
| Children | John Demos |
| Education | |
| Education | Anatolia College (A.B., 1910) Harvard University (PhD, 1916) University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | The Definition of Judgment (1916) |
Academic advisors | Bertrand Russell Alfred North Whitehead |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Analytic | |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
Doctoral students | Donald Davidson |
Notable students | Martin Luther King Jr. Alvin Plantinga |
Main interests | Moral philosophy |
Raphael S. Demos (/ˈdiːmoʊs/; Greek: Ραφαήλ Δήμου; January 23, 1892 – August 8, 1968) was a Greek-American philosopher. He was Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity at Harvard University and an authority on the work of Plato. At Harvard, he taught Martin Luther King Jr.