NOAH

See also:

• PORTER
• PORTER, BENJAMIN CURTIS (1843– )
• PORTER, DAVID (1780-1843)
• PORTER, DAVID DIXON (1813-1891)
• PORTER, ENDYMION (1587–1649)
• PORTER, HENRY (ft. 1596-1599)
• PORTER, HORACE (1837– )
• PORTER, JANE (1776–1850)
• PORTER, MARY (d. 1765)
• NOAH PORTER (1811–1892)

PORTER (1811–1892)  , American educationalist and philosophical writer, was born in Farmington, Connecticut, on the 14th of December 1811 . He graduated at Yale College, 1831, and laboured as a Congregational minister in Connecticut and Massachusetts, 1836–1846 . He was elected professor of moral philosophy and metaphysics at Yale in 1846, and from 1871 to 1886 he was president of the college . He edited several editions of Noah Webster's English dictionary, and wrote on education, &c . His best-known work is The Human Intellect, with an Introduction upon Psychology and the Human Soul (1868), comprehending a general history of philosophy, and following in part the " common-sense " philosophy of the Scottish school, while accepting the Kantian doctrine of intuition, and declaring the notion of design to be a priori . He died in New Haven on the 4th of March 1892 .