William Lewis Reese

Background

Reese, William Lewis was born on February 15, 1921 in Jefferson City, Missouri, United States. Son of William Lewis and Lillian Amelia (Fisher) Reese.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Drury College, 1942; Bachelor of Divinity, University of Chicago, 1945; Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1947; postdoctoral, Yale University, 1955-1956.

Career

Assistant professor philosophy Drake University, 1947-1949, associate professor philosophy, 1949-1957, head department, 1954-1957. Associate professor philosophy Grinnell College, 1957-1960. Visiting professor philosophy Iowa State University, 1958.

Professor philosophy, chairman department University Delaware, Newark, 1960-1967, director seminar in philosophy of science, 1960-1966, H. Rodney Sharp professor philosophy, 1965-1967. Professor philosophy State University of New York-Albany, 1967-1999, chairman department, 1968-1974, 84, professor philosophy emeritus, research professor philosophy, since 1999, founding member, past president emeritus center board, since 2006. Research fellow emeritus center, 2009.

Tully Cleon Knoles lecturer University Pacific, 1962. Delegate United States National Commission for United Nations Educational, 1963. General member 4th East-West Philosophers Conference, 1964.

Achievements

• William Lewis Reese has been listed as a noteworthy philosophy educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Philosophers Speak of God

    (This wide-ranging anthology of philosophical writings on ...)

  • The ascent from below;: An introduction to philosophical inquiry
  • DICTIONARY OF PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION: Eastern and Western Thought by W. L. Reese (Humanities Press, softcover 1980)

    (Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)

  • PHILOSOPHERS SPEAK OF GOD. Readings in Philosophical Theology and Analysis of Theistic Ideas.
  • PROCESS AND DIVINITY: Philosophical Essays Presented to Charles Hartshorne.
  • The Ascent from Below
  • Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion: Eastern and Western Thought

Membership

Member of American Association of University Professors, Metaphysical Society of America (secretary 1962-1965, treasurer 1962-1965), American Philosophical Association.

Connections

Married Louise Weeks, June 11, 1945. Children: Claudia, Patricia, William Lewis III.

Father:

William Lewis Reese

Mother:

Lillian Amelia (Fisher) Reese

Spouse:

Louise Weeks

child:

Claudia Reese

child:

William Lewis III Reese

child:

Patricia Reese