Curt John Ducasse

Curt John Ducasse (French: [dykas]; 7 July 1881 – 3 September 1969) was a French-born American philosopher who taught at the University of Washington and Brown University. He was known as an early champion of analytic philosophy inspired by the methods of the sciences, albeit with a mystical streak that included a noted interest in parapsychology and the possibilities of life before birth and life after death. He was a president of the American Philosophical Association (1939–1940) and a founder and the first president of the Association for Symbolic Logic (1936–1938).