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Rogers Albritton was born on 15 August, 1923, is an American philosopher and academic. Discover Rogers Albritton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

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1923

Rogers Garland Albritton (August 15, 1923 – May 21, 2002) was an American philosopher who served as chair of the Harvard and UCLA philosophy departments.

He published little (only five research papers during his lifetime) and inspired the entry "albritton" - a contraction of "all but written" - in the Philosophical Lexicon begun by Daniel Dennett (said entry having had its origins in a family joke).

Albritton's specialties included ancient philosophy, philosophy of mind, free will, skepticism, metaphysics and the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Highly respected in his field, Philosopher P. F. Strawson once described Rogers as "one of the 10 best philosophers in the world.” Hilary Putnam, a past president of the American Philosophical Association and emeritus professor at Harvard recounted: “Many would agree, including myself. He was quite unique."

Putnam goes on: “He gave me the feeling for what Socrates must have been like.

Socrates didn’t publish much either.

Like Socrates, he had a lot of impact on lots of philosophers.”

Albritton was born in Columbus, Ohio to Errett Cyril Albritton, a research physiologist, and Rietta Garland Albritton, a chemist.

He was admitted to Swarthmore at the age of 15 but left to serve in the Army Air Corps in World War II.

1948

He received his B.A. from St. John's College, Annapolis in 1948.

He taught for a year at St. John's and began teaching full-time at Cornell after completing 3 years of graduate work at Princeton University.

1955

He received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1955 and continued to teach at Cornell before being appointed to Harvard in 1956.

1960

He made tenure at Harvard in 1960 and served as chair from 1963 to 1970.

1968

In 1968, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1972

In 1972, he transferred to University of California, Los Angeles, where he served as chair from 1972 to 1981.

1984

In 1984 he was president of the Western (then Pacific) Division of the American Philosophical Association.

1985

Albritton's 1985 presidential address to the APA, "Freedom of Will and Freedom of Action," distinguished freedom of action (the freedom to do what we will) from freedom of the will itself.

This was unusual, because free will had been identified with freedom of action by compatibilists since Thomas Hobbes and David Hume.

"Where there's a will, there just isn't always a way," as he put it.

1991

He retired in 1991 but continued to teach courses at UCLA through the mid-1990s.

2002

Having suffered from chronic emphysema, he died in 2002 of pneumonia.

Of his limited publication rate, his New York Times obituarist remarked: "'Dr. Albritton's penchant for always questioning a conclusion led him to avoid the permanency of the written word.'"

Albritton was not generally interested in mainstream philosophy such as ethics and other topics dealing with social and political philosophy.

His main focus was to shift his attention to knowledge, thought processes, and validity within such methods of obtaining knowledge or if the knowledge itself was valid.

Albritton was especially interested in the main concept of being, time, space, etc. This led his decision to focus on metaphysics and epistemology.

Freedom and free will were big staples of his philosophies.

This shaped his philosophies and studies further into his life.