Virgil Aldrich

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Virgil Charles Aldrich
Born13 September 1903
Narsinghpur, India
Died28 May 1998
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
NationalityAmerican
Alma materOhio Wesleyan University, Oxford University, Sorbonne, University of California, Berkeley
Notable workPhilosophy of Art, The Body of a Person
SpouseLouise Hafliger
ChildrenDavid Virgil Aldrich
AwardsL.H.D. from Ohio Wesleyan University and Kenyon College
Era20th century
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy, Philosophy of art
Main interests
Philosophy of art, language, religion
Notable ideas
Definitions of vagueness, the distinction between vagueness of symbols and senses

Virgil Charles Aldrich (13 September 1903 in

philosopher of art, language, and religion
.

Early life and education

The son of Floyd Clement Aldrich and his wife Ann Hanley, Virgil Aldrich earned his

University of California Berkeley
in 1931. He married Louise Hafliger on 3 September 1927, and they had one son, David Virgil Aldrich.

Academic career

Aldrich's first academic appointment was his appointment as an

Salt Lake City, Utah, where he became an adjunct professor at the University of Utah
.

Aldrich served as Director of the

American Society of Aesthetics[2] and president of American Philosophical Association
.

"Some Meanings of Vague" (1937)

In his article "Some Meanings of Vague",[3] Aldrich puts forth a series of definitions of vague objects and sensum and then argues that any empiricist must account for vague sensum every bit as much as clear sensum, without skirting the issue. He takes there to be many kinds of vagueness—importantly, there is the vagueness of symbols and vagueness of senses. Here, symbols are anything that is used to refer to, including verbal words, signs, pictures, and more. Vagueness regarding symbols can be the same as the vagueness which regards the senses. There can, additionally, be vagueness of the practices surrounding the use of the symbol to refer. These, he suggests, should be avoided.

Honors

Writings

Books:

  • Language and philosophy ([Kyoto]: Kyoto American Studies Seminar, 1955)
  • Philosophy of Art, (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1963)
  • The Body of a Person, (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988)
  • My Century, Nantucket, Massachusetts, EditAndPublishYourBook.com/Lulu, 20 November 2010
  • Philosophical Reflections, Nantucket, Massachusetts, EditAndPublishYourBook.com/Lulu,

11 December 2010

Contributions:

  • Readings in Philosophical Analysis (1951)
  • Reflections on Art (1958)
  • Religious Experience and Truth (1961)
  • Faith and the Philosophers (1962)
  • World Perspectives on Philosophy (1967)
  • "Design, Composition, and Symbol", The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (Vol. 27, No. 4, Summer, 1969), pp. 379–388.
  • Studies in philosophy: a symposium on Gilbert Ryle, Edited by Konstantin Kolenda. (Houston, Tex. : William Marsh Rice University, 1972)
  • "Pictures and Persons" in Review of Metaphysics (1975)
  • "Description and expression: Physicalism restricted," Inquiry vol. 20 (1977), pp. 149–164.
  • Falling in love with wisdom: American philosophers talk about their calling, edited by David D. Karnos, Robert G. Shoemaker. (New York : Oxford University Press, 1993

Festschrift

  • Body, mind, and method: essays in honor of Virgil C. Aldrich edited by Donald F. Gustafson and Bangs L. Tapscott. (Dordrecht and Boston: D. Reidel Pub. Co., 1979)

See also

References

  1. doi:10.5840/apapa2013475
    . Retrieved 8 August 2023.
  2. ISSN 0021-8529
    . Retrieved 8 August 2023.
  3. ^ Analysis, Vol. 4, No. 6 (Aug. 1937), pp. 89–95, Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Analysis Committee.

Sources

External links

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