William Warren Bartley, III, (2 October 1934 – 5 February 1990) was an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 2 October 1934, Bartley was brought up in a Protestant Christian home. He completed his secondary education in Pittsburgh. He studied at Harvard University between 1952 and 1956 and graduated with a BA degree in philosophy. He spent the winter semester of 1956 and the ...
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William Warren Bartley, III, (2 October 1934 – 5 February 1990) was an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 2 October 1934, Bartley was brought up in a Protestant Christian home. He completed his secondary education in Pittsburgh. He studied at Harvard University between 1952 and 1956 and graduated with a BA degree in philosophy. 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 at the London School of Economics under Sir Karl Popper, where he completed his PhD in 1962. Parts of his disseration, Limits of Rationality: A critical Study of Some Logical Problems of Contemporary Pragmatism and Related Movements, were subsequently...
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