Pepper, Stephen C. (29 April 1891–01 May 1972), philosopher and aesthetician, was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Charles Hovey Pepper, an artist, and Frances Coburn. The family lived in Paris for six years, until 1899, when they moved to Concord, Massachusetts. In 1903, shortly before his twelfth birthday, Pepper traveled with his family to Japan. On visits to art galleries his father would ask him which pictures he liked best. Then they would compare notes. As Pepper noted later, it “was a wonderful education” for a future aesthetician, and “these trips through galleries were as if we were two boys on a fishing trip.”...
