About Dallas Willard
Dallas Albert Willard (September 4, 1935 – May 8, 2013) was an American philosopher also known for his writings on Christian spiritual formation. Much of his work in philosophy was related to phenomenology, particularly the work of Edmund Husserl, many of whose writings he translated into English for the first time. He was longtime Professor of Philosophy at The University of Southern California in Los Angeles, teaching at the school from 1965 until his death in 2013 and serving as the department chair from 1982 to 1985. == Education == Willard attended William Jewell College, and later graduated from Tennessee Temple College in 1956 with a B.A. in psychology, and from Baylor University in 1957 with a B.A. in Philosophy and Religion. He went to graduate school at Baylor University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, earning a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin with a minor in the History of Science, with the dissertation "Meaning and Universals In Husserl's 'Logische Untersuchungen'" in 1964. == Academic career == Willard spent five years teaching at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, first as a research and teaching assistant (1960–63), then as an Advanced Knapp Fellow (63–64), and finally as an instructor in philosophy (64–65). He then moved to the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, where he taught as an assistant professor (1965–69), as an associate professor (69–84), and finally as a full professor (1984–2013). He spent a total of 48 years at USC. He served as director of the School of Philosophy at USC from 1982 to 1985, as well as visiting appointments at UCLA (1969) and the University of Colorado (1984). His publications in philosophy are concerned primarily with epistemology, the philosophy of mind and of logic, and with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. He translated many of Husserl's early writings from German into English, and is widely regarded as an international authority on the philosopher's works, which span from the topics of time-consciousness to intentionality and intuition in Cartesian thought.
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