John William Miller

Who was John William Miller?

John William Miller was an American philosopher in the idealist tradition. His work appears in six published volumes, including The Paradox of Cause and most recently The Task of Criticism. His principal philosophical ambitions were 1 to reconcile the idealism of Josiah Royce and the pragmatism of William James and 2 to integrate philosophical thought and historical thought. As testimony to the integrative nature of his thinking, Miller referred to his philosophy as a "historical idealism” and a “naturalistic idealism.”