Willem deVries
Willem deVries | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Haverford College (AB) University of Pittsburgh (M.A., PhD) |
| Thesis | Hegel's Theory of Mental Activity (1981) |
| Doctoral advisor | Wilfrid Sellars |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School or tradition | German Idealism |
| Institutions | University of New Hampshire |
Willem Anton deVries (born 1950) is an American philosopher and distinguished professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of New Hampshire.[1][2] Along with John McDowell and Robert Brandom, deVries is part of the analytic Hegelian movement strongly influenced by the work of his doctoral advisor, Wilfrid Sellars.[3]
Education and career
deVries received his B.A. from Haverford College in 1972 and his M.A. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1975. After studying at the Hegel Archive of the Ruhr University Bochum for a year, he obtained his PhD from Pittsburgh under Wilfrid Sellars in 1981.[4][5]
In 1988, deVries joined the University of New Hampshire as a professor of philosophy,[6] and also published his PhD dissertation as the book Hegel's Theory of Mental Activity, which was reviewed by Karl Ameriks,[7] Richard E. Aquila, Robert Stern,[8] and Michael George.[9]
He has since published two books on Wilfrid Sellars, Knowledge, Mind, and the Given: Reading Wilfrid Sellars's "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind" (2000) and Wilfrid Sellars (2005), and co-edited the volume Sellars and Davidson in Dialogue: Truths, Meanings, and Minds (2025).[10][11][12]
References
- ^ "Willem de Vries". College of Liberal Arts. Retrieved 2025-05-25.
- ^ "Willem A. deVries". UNH Awards. 2023-12-20. Retrieved 2025-05-25.
- ^ Redding, Paul (2024), "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel", in Zalta, Edward N.; Nodelman, Uri (eds.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2024 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2025-05-25
- ^ De Vries, Willem. "Dissertation: Hegel's theory of mental activity". University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 2025-05-25.
- ^ deVries, Willem (1988-01-01). "Hegel's Theory of Mental Activity". Philosophy.
- ^ "Willem DeVries". UNH Today. 2016-09-08. Retrieved 2025-05-25.
- ^ Ameriks, Karl (1992). "Review of Hegel's Theory of Mental Activity: An Introduction to Theoretical Spirit". The Philosophical Review. 101 (2): 399–401. doi:10.2307/2185553. ISSN 0031-8108. JSTOR 2185553.
- ^ Stern, Robert (November 1989). "William A. de Vries, Hegel's Theory of Mental Activity: An Introduction to Theoretical Spirit. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1988, pp. xxii, 209, £17.40". Hegel Bulletin. 10 (2): 42–44. doi:10.1017/S0263523200002573. ISSN 0263-5232.
- ^ George, Michael (1989). "Hegel's Theory of Mental Activity: An Introduction to Theoretical Spirit". Philosophical Books. 30 (3): 142–144. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0149.1989.tb02158.x. ISSN 1468-0149.
- ^ deVries, Willem A.; Sellars, Wilfrid; Triplett, Timm (2000). Knowledge, Mind, and the Given: Reading Wilfrid Sellars's "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind". Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. ISBN 978-0-87220-551-2.
- ^ deVries, Willem A. (2005). Wilfrid Sellars. Philosophy Now. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-84465-039-2.
- ^ deVries, Willem A.; Joseph, Marc A., eds. (2025). Sellars and Davidson in Dialogue: Truths, Meanings, and Minds. Routledge Studies in American Philosophy. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-032-77885-3.
External links
- Willem deVries publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Willem deVries on Aeon (magazine)