Welcome to Pollockosmos
Home page for the life and work of Robert Channon Pollock
(March 30, 1901-May 30, 1978).
let a man fall into the divine circuits, and he is enlarged. Obedience to his genius is the only liberating influence. - Emerson
NTRODUCING ROBERT CHANNON POLLOCK
In five decades of teaching, Robert C. Pollock’s reputation as an extraordinary scholar and inspired lecturer in Medieval philosophy and American philosophy influenced countless students with, in the words of the American philosopher John J. McDermott, “a fusion of imagination and scholarship nowhere matched in the field.”
Professor Pollock taught philosophy at the Graduate School of Fordham University from 1936 to 1966. He also held various appointments at the University of Notre Dame, University of Toronto, Luigi Sturzo Institute in Italy, New School of Social Research, and Seton Hall University. As a student he studied under Alfred North Whitehead and William McDougall at Harvard and Etienne Gilson at The Medieval Institute in Toronto.