Thomas Whittaker (metaphysician)


Thomas Whittaker was an English metaphysician and critic.

Biography

Whittaker was educated at Dublin Royal College of Science and Exeter College, Oxford. He was an editor of the journal Mind. He won a Natural Science scholarship at Exeter College. From 1910 he was director of the Rationalist Press Association.
Whittaker was an advocate of the Christ myth theory. He was influenced by the writings of Willem Christiaan van Manen and J. M. Robertson.

Works

He wrote several lives for the Dictionary of National Biography, signing as T. W-r.