Burleigh Taylor Wilkins

Burleigh Taylor Wilkins

Burleigh Taylor Wilkins (born 1932 in Bridgetown, Virginia)cite book
title=Biography Resource Center
location=Farmington Hills, Michigan
publisher=Thomson Gale
year=2008] is a professor in the Department of Philosophy of the University of California, Santa Barbara. [cite web
title=(synopsis) Essays in Honor of Burleigh Wilkins
url=http://www.peterlang.net/index.cfm?vID=65161&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=3&vUUR=4
publisher=Peter Lang Publishing Group] [http://www.philosophy.ucsb.edu/people/profiles/faculty/cvs/wilkins-cv.pdf]

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.

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

References

External links

* [http://www.philosophy.ucsb.edu/people/profiles/faculty/wilkins.html UCSB faculty profile]


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