Illuminating study of the ideas and influences of a nearforgotten American philosopher.This book examines the ideas and influences of a nearly forgotten SwedishAmerican philosopher John Elof Boodin 18691950. A friend and student of William James and protg of Josiah Royce at Harvard Boodin combined Jamesian pragmatism and Roycean idealism in developing original scholarship nearly sixty articles and eight books from 1900 to 1947 in addition to a volume of posthumous papers published in 1957. Although he is seldom remembered today the enduring importance of pragmatism and the rising influence of process theology today suggests that his close reading of early to midtwentiethcentury science and vast grasp of philosophical issues warrants a renewed interest in his work that can be a valuable antidote to the sterile and constricting effects of reductionism and dogmatic materialism prevalent today in both those fields.