Margaret Dauler Wilson

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Margaret Dauler Wilson
American
Alma materVassar College
Harvard University
Scientific career
FieldsPhilosophy
Philosophy of religion
Philosophy of mind
Studies in early modern philosophy
InstitutionsPrinceton University

Margaret Dauler Wilson (29 January 1939 – 27 August 1998)[1] was an American philosopher and a professor of philosophy at Princeton University between 1970 and 1998.[2]

Biography

Born in

Oxford University in 1963–64. Wilson spent the early years of her career as an assistant professor of philosophy at Columbia University (1965–1967), and went on to teach at the Rockefeller Institute
between 1967 and 1970.

In 1970, Wilson became the first female member of faculty in the philosophy department at Princeton

David Lewis, Saul Kripke, Harry Frankfurt, Gil Harman, Bas van Fraassen, Paul Benacerraf and Richard Jeffrey. (She can be seen pictured with many of the same in a 1979 faculty photograph hosted online by the department).[4]

Wilson taught courses in

Philosophy of Religion. In her scholarship, Wilson focused on the history of early modern philosophy, the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of mind, and the theory of perception. Author of Descartes (1978),[5] as well as of many articles on 17th and 18th-century metaphysics and epistemology, some of which are collected in her, Ideas and Mechanism (1999),[6] Wilson was also editor of The Essential Descartes (1969)[7] and co-editor (with D. Brock and R. Kuhns) of Philosophy: An Introduction (1972).[8]

Margaret Wilson has been described as "the most eminent English-language historian of early modern philosophy of her generation"

Guggenheim fellowship in 1977[10] and an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship in 1982. She was also a Centennial Medalist of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1989, and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
in 1992. In 1994, Wilson received Princeton University's Howard T. Behrman Award for distinguished achievement in the humanities.

Active in professional organizations, Wilson served as vice-president of the Eastern Division of the

Heinz Foundation
awards.

Wilson died at the age of 59 on August 27, 1998.[11]

Since 2002, the Margaret Dauler Wilson Biennial Philosophy Conference has been held in her honor [12] and in 2016, the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University began an occasional series of lectures in her name.[2] The inaugural lecture was given by Christia Mercer,[13] one of several of Wilson's former students who themselves went on to become prominent philosophers, others include Janet Broughton, Lisa J. Downing, Rae Langton, and Eileen O'Neill.[14][15]

References

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  2. ^ a b "Margaret Dauler Wilson | Department of Philosophy". philosophy.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
  3. ^ The Philosophy Family Tree (Data from retired service Archived by Wayback Machine)
  4. ^ "The Seventies: a snapshot | Department of Philosophy". philosophy.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
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  8. ISBN 9780136641100
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  9. ^ Wilson, Catherine. "Margaret Dauler Wilson: A Life in Philosophy" (PDF). Philosophy Documentation Center. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  10. ^ "MARGARET DAULER WILSON". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  11. ^ "Princeton - PWB 091398 - Obituary Margaret Dauler Wilson". pr.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
  12. ^ "Margaret Wilson Conferences". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
  13. ^ "Christia Mercer will give the Department's Inaugural Margaret Dauler Wilson Occasional Lecture. | Department of Philosophy". philosophy.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  14. ^ "alumni PhDs by Last Name" (PDF). Princeton University Department of Philosophy. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  15. ^ "In Memoriam: Eileen O'Neill (1953-2017)". Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog. Retrieved 2019-09-15. Eileen's main interests were in 17th Century metaphysics, specifically causation, and the history of women philosophers of that period. Her 1983 Princeton dissertation on Descartes, Mind and Mechanism, still widely cited, was written under Margaret Wilson.

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