Donald Cary Williams
Donald Cary Williams (28 May 1899 – 16 January 1983), usually cited as D. C. Williams, was an American philosopher and a professor at both the University of California Los Angeles (from 1930 to 1938) and at Harvard University (from 1939 to 1967).
Donald Cary Williams | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 May 1899 |
| Died | 16 January 1983 |
| Education | Occidental College (AB, 1923), English Harvard University (AM, 1925) Harvard University (PhD, 1928) |
| Spouse |
Katherine Pressly Adams
(m. 1928) |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada (1937) |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Institutions | UCLA Harvard University |
| Thesis | A Metaphysical Interpretation of Behaviorism (1928) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ralph Barton Perry |
| Doctoral students | Roderick Chisholm, Donald Davidson, Nicholas Wolterstorff |
| Other notable students | David Lewis |
Main interests | Metaphysics, epistemology, induction, logic, philosophy of mind |
Notable ideas | Trope theory, empirical realism, the reliability of statistical sampling solves the problem of induction |
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