Burleigh Taylor Wilkins
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Burleigh Taylor Wilkins is a professor in the Department of Philosophy of the University of California, Santa Barbara
.
He studied at Duke University
, (B.A. 1952); Harvard University
(M.A., 1954); and Princeton University
(M.A., 1963, Ph.D., 1965). He previously taught history at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia
from 1956-57; humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
, in Cambridge, Massachusetts
from 1957-60; philosophy at Princeton University
(1960-61, 1963) and at Rice University
(1965-1967). He has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1968.
He has written a biography on Carl L. Becker
, and books on the philosophies of Edmund Burke
, Hegel, and Karl Popper
.
University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a site in Goleta, California, from Santa Barbara and northwest of Los...
.
He studied at Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
, (B.A. 1952); Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
(M.A., 1954); and Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
(M.A., 1963, Ph.D., 1965). He previously taught history at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia
Rome, Georgia
Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Rome is the largest city and the county seat of Floyd County, Georgia, United States. It is the principal city of the Rome, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Floyd County...
from 1956-57; humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
, in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
from 1957-60; philosophy at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
(1960-61, 1963) and at Rice University
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...
(1965-1967). He has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1968.
He has written a biography on Carl L. Becker
Carl L. Becker
Carl Lotus Becker was an American historian.-Life:He was born in Waterloo, Iowa. He studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Frederick Jackson Turner was his doctoral advisor there. Becker got his Ph.D. in 1907. He was John Wendell Anderson Professor of History in the Department of History...
, and books on the philosophies of Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke PC was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party....
, Hegel, and Karl Popper
Karl Popper
Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH FRS FBA was an Austro-British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics...
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Publications
- Carl Becker: a Biographical Study in American Intellectual History ISBN 9780262230056
- The Problem of Burke's Political Philosophy ISBN 9780198271628
- Hegel's Philosophy of History ISBN 0801408199
- Has History Any Meaning?: A Critique of Popper's Philosophy of History ISBN 0801411874
- Terrorism and Collective Responsibility ISBN 041504152X