Schiller studied at Oxford and was professor there from 1897–1926, when he emigrated to the university of Southern California. His motto was the doctrine that man is the measure of all things, from Protagoras. He was the most notable exponent of pragmatism in Britain, bearing strong affinities to William James, and in everything in opposition to the absolute idealism of Bradley and his Oxford followers. Works included Riddles of the Sphinx (1891), Humanism (1912), Problems of Belief (1924), Logic for Use (1929), and Our Human Truths (1939).