Shadworth Hollway Hodgson, FBA (25 December 1832 – 13 June 1912) was an English philosopher.
He was acknowledged by William James[1] as a forerunner of Pragmatism, although he viewed his work as a completion of Kant's project.
Hodgson regarded the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge as his chief inspirations, and had no academic background, though he was a member of the Metaphysical Society.
[3] Hodgson believed in what he called the principle of reflective consciousness, namely that "A thing is what it is known as, this is the principle in its objective formula; 'the objective and subjective aspects are inseparable,' this is its subjective formula, expressing the way in which the same truth appears in reflection itself.".
[4] Attention to Hodgson was briefly enlivened by an article by Wolfe Mays in a British phenomenology journal in the 1970s.