Nicholas Wolterstorff
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Nicholas Paul Wolterstorff (born January 21, 1932) is an American philosopher and theologian. He is currently Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University.[2] A prolific writer with wide-ranging philosophical and theological interests, he has written books on aesthetics, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and philosophy of education. In Faith and Rationality, Wolterstorff, Alvin Plantinga, and William Alston developed and expanded upon a view of religious epistemology that has come to be known as Reformed epistemology.[3] He also helped to establish the journal Faith and Philosophy and the Society of Christian Philosophers.
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Born | Nicholas Paul Wolterstorff (1932-01-21) January 21, 1932 (age 92) |
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Claire Wolterstorff (m. 1955) |
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Thesis | Whitehead's Theory of Individuals (1956) |
Academic advisors | Donald Cary Williams[1] |
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Doctoral students | Phillip Cary |
Notable ideas | Reformed epistemology |
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