Porter, NOAH

Porter, NOAH, philosophical writer, was born 14th December 1811, at Farmington, Connecticut, graduated at Yale in 1831, studied theology, and was for ten years a Congregational pastor. In 1846 he became professor of Moral Philosophy at Yale, and from 1871 to 1886 he was president of the college. One of the doctorates received by him was the Edinburgh LL.D. in 1886. Of his numerous works may be mentioned The Human Intellect (1868; often re-edited), Books and Reading (1870), Sciences of Nature versus the Science of Man (1871), Elements of Intellectual Science (1872), Moral Science (1885), Kant's Ethics (1886). He died 4th March 1892.