Walter Terence Stace

Walter Terence Stace
Born	(1886-11-17)17 November 1886[1][2] London, UK
Died	2 August 1967(1967-08-02) (aged 80) Laguna Beach, California, US
Occupation	Philosopher, academic, civil servant
Alma mater	Trinity College Dublin
Subject	Philosophy of mysticism
Notable works	Mysticism and Philosophy (1960)

Walter Terence Stace (17 November 1886 – 2 August 1967) was a British civil servant, educator, public philosopher and epistemologist, who wrote on Hegel, mysticism, and moral relativism. He worked with the Ceylon Civil Service from 1910 to 1932, and from 1932 to 1955 he was employed by Princeton University in the Department of Philosophy. He is most renowned for his work in the philosophy of mysticism, and for books like Mysticism and Philosophy (1960) and Teachings of the Mystics (1960). These works have been influential in the study of mysticism, but they have also been severely criticised for their lack of methodological rigor and their perennialist pre-assumptions.