Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Bouwsma was born in 1898, and began teaching at the University of Nebraska in 1928, remaining there until 1968. He was then at the University of Texas until his death in 1978.
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Warner Wick
Wick received the Quantrell award for excellence in undergraduate teaching from the University of Chicago in 1949, so he was presumably finished with his graduate education by then. I don't know where he did his graduate work, though.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
George Schrader
Schrader received his doctorate from Yale in 1945. His dissertation was probably on Kant, but I don't have a title for it.
Monday, August 15, 2005
Rogers Albritton
Albritton received his doctorate from Princeton in 1955. Putnam is a possibility, since he was at Princeton from 1953 to 1961, but it's a bit of a tight fit.
Update: Albritton has now been listed under Robert Scoon in the tree.
Update: Albritton has now been listed under Robert Scoon in the tree.
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Zeno Vendler
Vendler received his doctorate from Harvard in 1959, with a dissertation titled "Facts and Laws". The most plausible candidates for his advisor look to me to be Dreben, Firth, Albritton, and Scheffler, but I don't have any direct evidence for any of them, and none is a perfect fit.
Update: It looks like Vendler's advisor was probably Paul Ziff. If you know of any reason to doubt this, please let me know, but for now I'm listing it that way in the tree.
Update: It looks like Vendler's advisor was probably Paul Ziff. If you know of any reason to doubt this, please let me know, but for now I'm listing it that way in the tree.
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Gottlob Frege
Frege's advisors were mathematicians Ernst Schering and Rudolf Clebsch, but does he have any descendants? I know of a biological descendant (thanks to Catherine Manoukian, via Philip Kremer), but no philosophical ones. Wittgenstein and Carnap are the two closest cases, but for each of them there are more official parents. Is there anyone I'm missing?
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Monday, August 08, 2005
Harry Frankfurt
Frankfurt received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins in 1954. I know that as of the early 1960's, the Johns Hopkins faculty included Ludwig Edelstein, Albert Hammond, Maurice Mandelbaum, George Owen, and Joseph Ullian.
Update: Harry Frankfurt has been placed under Albert Hammond in the tree.
Update: Harry Frankfurt has been placed under Albert Hammond in the tree.
Thursday, August 04, 2005
Robert Adams
Adams was born in 1937, so was probably doing his graduate work in the early 1960s. I don't, however, find him listed anywhere on the Review of Metaphysics lists of doctorates granted. I know he was teaching at Michigan by 1970.
Update: Adams has now been placed under Nelson Pike in the tree.
Update: Adams has now been placed under Nelson Pike in the tree.