Frank Ebersole

Frank B. Ebersole is an American philosopher who developed a unique form of ordinary language philosophy which, when used to investigate a philosophical problem, can undermine the problem. Frank B. Ebersole (1919-2009) was born in Indiana. He majored in zoology at Heidelberg College. After several years as a philosophy graduate student at Yale University, he transferred to the University of Chicago, where he worked with Rudolph Carnap, one the fo... more

Frank B. Ebersole is an American philosopher who developed a unique form of ordinary language philosophy which, when used to investigate a philosophical problem, can undermine the problem. Frank B. Ebersole (1919-2009) was born in Indiana. He majored in zoology at Heidelberg College. After several years as a philosophy graduate student at Yale University, he transferred to the University of Chicago, where he worked with Rudolph Carnap, one the founders of logical analysis, and with Charles Hartshorne, an advocate of process philosophy and a theorist of physiological psychology. Ebersole received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1947 (and won the 1945 Fiske Poetry Prize). Ebersole taught philosophy at several colleges and universities (e.g., Carleton, Oberlin, San José State, Stanford, and Alberta), but most of his academic career was at the University of Oregon, where he was department chairman and director of graduate studies. He has published essays in a... less