William Warren Bartley
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William Warren Bartley, III
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October 2, 1934 Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Died | February 5, 1990 Oakland, California, United States |
| Occupation | Philosopher Author Member, Advisory Board, Est, an educational corporation |
William Warren Bartley, III (October 2, 1934 – February 5, 1990), known as W.W. Bartley, III, was an American philosopher specializing in 20th century philosophy, language and logic, and the Vienna Circle.
Born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1934, Bartley was brought up in a Protestant home. He completed his secondary education in Pittsburgh and studied at Harvard University between 1952 and 1956, graduating with a BA degree in philosophy. While an undergraduate at Harvard, he was an editor at The Harvard Crimson newspaper. He spent the winter semester of 1956 and the summer semester of 1957 at the Harvard Divinity School and the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1958, he completed his MA degree in philosophy at Harvard. Bartley was training to become a Protestant minister, but rejected Christianity at that point. He went on to study under Sir Karl Popper at the London School of Economics, where he completed his PhD in 1962. Parts of his dissertation, Limits of Rationality: A Critical Study of Some Logical Problems of Contemporary Pragmatism and Related Movements, were subsequently published as The Retreat to Commitment in the same year.
After his doctoral graduation, Bartley worked as a lecturer in logic in London. Later, he held positions at the Warburg Institute and the University of California, San Diego. He was appointed to his first full professorship in 1969, at the University of Pittsburgh, where he had been teaching since 1963.
In 1973, he joined the California State University, Hayward faculty as a Professor of Philosophy, where he received the distinction of "Outstanding Professor" of the entire California State University System in 1979. His last position was that of a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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