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Dallas Willard is a
Professor in the School of Philosophy at the University of
Southern California in Los Angeles. He has taught at USC since
1965, where he was Director of the School of Philosophy from
1982-1985. He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin
(Madison, 1960-1965), and has held visiting appointments at
UCLA (1969) and the University of Colorado (1984).
His undergraduate studies were at William
Jewell College, Tennessee Temple College (B.A., 1956,
Psychology) and Baylor University (B.A., 1957, Philosophy and
Religion); and his Graduate education was at Baylor University
and the University of Wisconsin (Ph. D., 1964: Major in
Philosophy, Minor in the History of Science).
His philosophical publications are mainly in
the areas of epistemology, the philosophy of mind and of
logic, and on the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, including
extensive translations of Husserl's early writings from German
into English. His English translation and edition of Edmund
Husserl's Philosophy of Arithmetic was released in September,
2003. His Logic and the Objectivity of Knowledge, a study of
Husserl's early philosophy, appeared in 1984, and his Early
Writings in the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics (1993)
makes available to the English reader nearly all of the
shorter philosophical works that Husserl produced on the way
to the phenomenological breakthrough recorded in his Logical
Investigations of 1900-1901.
He also lectures and publishes in religion.
Renovation of the Heart was published in May 2002, and
received Christianity Today's 2003 Book Award in the category
of Spirituality. The Divine Conspiracy was released in 1998
and selected Christianity Today's "Book of the Year"
for 1999. The Spirit of the Disciplines appeared in 1988, and
Hearing God (1999) first appeared as In Search of Guidance in
1984 (2nd edition in 1993).
He has served on the boards of
the C.S. Lewis Foundation and Biola University, and is a
member of numerous evaluation committees for the Western
Association of Schools and Colleges (accreditation).
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