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On Roderick Chisholm

Matthew Davidson briefly defines an important analytical thinker.

Roderick M. Chisholm (1916-1999) was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. His influence on epistemology (the theory of knowledge) and metaphysics cannot be understated: indeed, it is difficult to conceive of what these fields would be like today without the impact of Chisholm. Were there a Nobel Prize in philosophy, Chisholm surely would have won it. But who was he?

Chisholm graduated from Brown University in 1938 and completed his PhD at Harvard in 1942.