Roderick Chisholm
Roderick Chisholm | |
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 Chisholm, c. 1955 | |
| Born | Roderick Milton Chisholm November 27, 1916 |
| Died | January 19, 1999 (aged 82) Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Brown University Harvard University |
| Thesis | The Basic Propositions of the Theory of Knowledge (1942) |
| C. I. Lewis, D. C. Williams | |
Other advisor | Curt John Ducasse |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Analytic philosophy | |
| Institutions | Brown University |
Doctoral students | Richard Cartwright, Dale Jacquette, Charles Taliaferro, Richard Clyde Taylor, Dean Zimmerman |
Notable students | Keith Lehrer |
Main interests | Epistemology Metaphysics |
Notable ideas | Direct attribution theory of reference, contrary-to-fact conditional, latitudinarianism, agent causation |
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alma_mater which should be merged into education.Roderick Milton Chisholm (/ˈtʃɪzəm/ CHIZ-əm; November 27, 1916 – January 19, 1999) was an American philosopher known for his work on epistemology, metaphysics, free will, value theory, deontology, deontic logic and the philosophy of perception.
Richard and Fred Feldman, writing in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, remark that he "is widely regarded as one of the most creative, productive, and influential American philosophers of the 20th Century."