Oliver L. Reiser
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| Oliver L. Reiser | |
|---|---|
| Born | 15 November 1895 Columbus, Ohio |
| Died | 6 June 1974 (78) Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania |
| Alma mater | Ohio State University (B.A., 1921; M.A., 1922; Ph.D., 1924) |
| Noted work(s) | Cosmic Humanism (1966) |
Oliver Leslie Reiser (November 15, 1895 - June 6, 1974) was an American philosopher, active as a professor at Ohio State University and at the University of Pittsburgh, serving as head of the philosophy department at the latter. Reiser notably proposed the concept of the psychosphere, a field encompassing the planet Earth that he supposed acts as a living memory storage system and influences biological evolution of lifeforms within it, on which basis he advocated for radio-eugenics, a means whereby the psychosphere would be manipulated technologically to promote preferred evolutionary pressures.
Selected Bibliography
- Reiser, Oliver L. (1928), The Alchemy of Light and Color, New York: Norton
- Reiser, Oliver L. (1930), Humanistic Logic for the Mind in Action, New York: Crowell
- Reiser, Oliver L. (1933), Humanism and New World Ideals, Yellow Springs, OH: Antioch Press
- Reiser, Oliver L. (1935), Philosophy and the Concepts of Modern Science, New York: Macmillan
- Reiser, Oliver L. (1940), The Promise of Scientific Humanism Toward a Unification of Scientific, Religious, Social and Economic Thought, New York: O. Piest
- Reiser, Oliver L. (1942), A New Earth and a New Humanity, New York: Creative Age Press
- Reiser, Oliver L.; Davies, Blodwen (1944), Planetary Democracy: An Introduction to Scientific Humanism and Applied Semantics, New York: Creative Age Press
- Reiser, Oliver L. (1946), The World Sensorium: The Social Embryology of World Federation, New York: Avalon Press
- Reiser, Oliver L. (1948), World Philosophy: A Search for Synthesis, Pittsburgh, OH: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Reiser, Oliver L. (1951), Nature, Man, and God: A Synthesis of Pantheism and Scientific Humanism, Pittsburgh, OH: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Reiser, Oliver L. (1955), Unified Symbolism for World Understanding in Science, Including Bliss Symbols (Semantography) and Logic, Cybernetics and Semantics, Sydney, Aus.: Semantography Pub. Co.
- Reiser, Oliver L. (1958), The Integration of Human Knowledge: A Study of the Formal Foundations and Social Implications of Unified Science, Boston, MA: P. Sargent
- Reiser, Oliver L. (1961), Man's New Image of Man: An Interpretation of the Development of American Philosophy from Puritanism to World Humanism, Pittsburgh, OH: Boxwood Press
- Reiser, Oliver L. (1962), Synthesis as the Function of Philosophy, Greenville, DE: Psychosynthesis Research Foundation
- Reiser, Oliver L. (1966), Cosmic Humanism: A Theory of the Eight-Dimensional Cosmos Based on Integrative Principles from Science, Religion, and Art, Cambridge, MA: Schenkman