Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

He was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college. 428

His task as in any metaphysical theory was to account for every aspect of existing reality in the simplest and most economical basis. Alexander was a contemporary of Alfred North Whitehead whom he influenced and mentored others who went on to become major figures in 20th century British philosophy.

He was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college.