Works
His books included:
- Problems of the Self (1917)
- Study in Religion (1920)
- Several biographies on philosophers such as David Hume and Thomas Hobbes
- The Idea of the Soul (1924)
- The Idea of Value (1929)
- Knowledge, Belief, and Opinion (1930)
- An Enquiry into Moral Notions (1935)
- Theism and Cosmology (1940)
- Mind and Deity (1941).
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