Elmer Sprague

Elmer Sprague is professor emeritus at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, where he taught philosophy for 44 years. He has a B.A. from the University of Nebraska, and a B.A. and D.Phil. from Oxford. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1948–51), and was the Paul Robert and Jean Shuman Hanna Professor of Philosophy at Hamline University (1987). His previous publications include articles on Ryle and Hume, and the book, Metaphysical Thinking. His specialties are the philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. His book "Persons and their Minds", published in 1999, is a Wittgensteinian-Ryleian critique of modern philosophy of mind.