Edward Pols

Edward Pols (1919–2005) was an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Bowdoin College. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America. He won the J.N. Findlay Award of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1994 for *Radical Realism* (1992). He was educated at Harvard University, where he earned his PhD with a thesis on "The idea of freedom in the metaphysics of Whitehead" in 1949. His philosophical work is associated with Process philosophy and Contemporary philosophy within the Western philosophy tradition.