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Philosophy educator

Daniel Erwin Anderson, American philosophy educator. Recipient United States Steel fellowship Tulane University, 1959-1961, Distinguished Service award Ohio Philosophical Association, 1987.

Background

Anderson, Daniel Erwin was born on November 4, 1928 in Xenia, Ohio, United States. Son of Frederick Erwin and Jane Lee (Santmyer) Anderson.

Education

Bachelor, Baldwin Wallace College, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy, Tulane University, 1961.

Career

From instructor to assistant professor, Louisiana State University in New Orleans, 1961-1963;assistant professor, Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania, 1963-1964;from assistant professor to professor philosophy, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, since 1964.

Works

  • Other Work

    • Author: The Masks of Dionyses, A Commentary on Plato's Symposium, 1993. Contributor articles to professional journals.

Membership

With United States Navy, 1951-1953. Member American Philosophical Association, Ohio Philosophical Association (president 1969-1972, chair committee on status of the profession since 1973, Distinguished Service award 1987), American Institute Archeology, Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy, American Atheists.

Interests

  • Avocations: flying, woodworking, making jewelry.

Connections

Married Virginia May Dolbeare, January 6, 1953. Children: Robert Bruce, Jacqueline Diane Anderson Kennedy, Alan Frederick, Susan Ellen Anderson Ward.

Father:
Frederick Erwin Anderson

Mother:
Jane Lee (Santmyer) Anderson

Spouse:
Virginia May Dolbeare

child:
Robert Bruce Anderson

child:
Jacqueline Diane Anderson Kennedy Anderson

child:
Alan Frederick Anderson

child:
Susan Ellen Anderson Ward Anderson