Hú Shì

   Hú Shì    Hu Shih    胡適    hushi, 1891-1962, influential scholar, writer, philosopher, and language reformist, who studied at Columbia University under John Dewey; his dissertation The Development of the Logical Method in Ancient China (Hú 1922) was the first book on the history of Chinese logic in English. He returned to China as a professor at Peking University, eventually becoming its chancellor. In China, his  Zhōngguó zhéxué shǐ dàgāng ‘outline of the history of Chinese philosophy’ was a significant contribution to the understanding of the Mohist Canons, and the first to employ ideas from Western logic. 【Jeremy】