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Scott Milross Buchanan
17 March 1895 – 25 March 1968
15 works on record
Biography
Scott Milross Buchanan was an American philosopher, educator, and foundation consultant. He was dean of St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland (1937-1947), and he is best known as the founder, together with Stringfellow Barr, of the Great Books program at St. John's College. Buchanan was born Sprague, Washington, and raised in Jeffersonville, Vermont. He received his undergraduate degree from Amherst College in 1916, majoring in Greek and mathematics. After serving in the Navy during the final year of World War I, he studied philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford, as a Rhodes scholar from 1919-21. He received his doctorate in philosophy at Harvard University in 1925.
Buchanan's various projects and writings may be understood as an ambitious program of social and cultural reform based on the insight that many crucial problems arise from the uncritical use of symbolism. Buchanan's program stressed what he saw as the need for reforms in the mathematical symbolism employed in modern science. Buchanan's first book, *Possibility* (1927), stated that science is "the greatest body of uncriticized dogma we have today" and even likened science to the "Black Arts". Buchanan pondered ways to mitigate the variety of threats to humanity that he perceived in the unmanaged and unsupervised growth of modern science and technology.
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Works

Truth in the sciences
1972

So reason can rule
1968

The doctrine of signatures
1938

Poetry and mathematics
1929

Possibility
1927

The early history of St. John's College in Annapolis
Scott Buchanan
Scott Buchanan
1995
Truth in the sciences [by] Scott Buchanan
Truth in the sciences [by] Scott Buchanan
1972
Rediscovering natural law
Rediscovering natural law
1962
On revolution
On revolution
1962
The corporation and the republic
The corporation and the republic
1958
Essay in politics
Essay in politics
1953
Philosophical Essays for Alfred North Whitehead
Philosophical Essays for Alfred North Whitehead
1936
Symbolic distance
Symbolic distance
1932
Symbolic distance in relation to analogy and fiction
Symbolic distance in relation to analogy and fiction
1932