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Susanne Langer
Sign in to saveAlso known as Susanne Knauth, Susanne K. Langer, Susanne K. née Knauth, Susanne Katherina Langer, Susanne Katherina née Knauth, Susanne K. nee Knauth, Susanne Katherina nee Knauth
American philosopher (1895–1985)
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Top works
- Understanding Suicide
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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Quotes
- “The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it—right or wrong—may be given.”
- “If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions.”
- “The men in the laboratory [...] cannot be said to observe the actual objects of their curiosity at all.[...] The sense data on which the propositions of modern science rest are, for the most part, little photographic spots and blurs, or inky curved lines on paper.[...] What is directly observable is only a sign of the "physical fact"; it requires interpretation to yield scientific propositions.”
- “Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.”
- “Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.”
- “Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Susanne Katerina Knauth , December 20, 1895, New York City, U.S.
- Died
- July 17, 1985 (1985-07-17) (aged 89), Old Lyme, Connecticut , U.S.
- Spouse
- William Leonard Langer ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1921 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1942 )
- Education
- Radcliffe College ( BA , PhD )
- Doctoral advisor
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Era
- 20th-century philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Process philosophy
- Institutions
- Radcliffe College, University of Delaware , Columbia University , Connecticut College
- Main interests
- Philosophy of mind , aesthetics
- Notable ideas
- Distinction between discursive and presentational symbols
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Manhattan
- Place of death
- Old Lyme
- Spouse
- William L. Langer
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- philosophy of mind
- Image
- Susanne Langer 1925.jpg
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- 1895-12-20
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- 1985-07-17
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Encyclopedic overview
Susanne Katherina Langer (/ˈlæŋər/; née Knauth; December 20, 1895 – July 17, 1985) was an American philosopher, writer, and educator known for her theories on the influences of art on the mind. She was one of the earliest American women to achieve an academic career in philosophy. Langer is best remembered for her 1942 book Philosophy in a New Key, which was followed by a sequel, Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art, in 1953. In 1960, Langer was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Life
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