Theodore "Ted" Michael Drange (born 1934) is a
philosopher of religion
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and
Professor Emeritus
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at
West Virginia University
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, where he taught
philosophy from 1966 to 2001.
Life
After graduating from Fort Hamilton High School, he received a
B.A.
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from
Brooklyn College in 1955 and a Ph.D. from
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...
in 1963, where he moved to after one year of graduate school at Yale.
He taught at Brooklyn College (1960–62), the University of Oregon (1962–65), Idaho State University (1965–66) and West Virginia University, 1966-2001 after becoming a full professor in 1974. Drange retired in 2001 and moved to Ventura, CA.
Drange's primarily interests, until the early 1980s were in philosophy of language and epistemology, later shifting to philosophy of religion.
Drange's first book, ''Type Crossings'' (The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1966) was a revision of his Ph.D. dissertation under Max Black on the philosophy of language and was published in 1966. His other book was in the philosophy of religion, ''Nonbelief and Evil'' (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1998), in 1998. Drange has also written several articles on the philosophy of religion and atheism, particularly for the
Internet Infidels
Internet Infidels, Inc. is a Colorado Springs, Colorado-based nonprofit educational organization founded in 1995 by Jeffery Jay Lowder and Brett Lemoine. Its mission is to use the Internet to promote a view that supernatural forces or entities do n ...
organization. In 1997, he debated Christian apologist
William Lane Craig
William Lane Craig (born August 23, 1949) is an American analytic philosopher, Christian apologist, author and Wesleyan theologian who upholds the view of Molinism and neo-Apollinarianism. He is Professor of Philosophy at Houston Baptist ...
on the existence of God.
Drange married his wife Annette in 1959 and had two children, Susan and Michael.
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See also
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American philosophy
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List of American philosophers
This is a list of American philosophers; of philosophers who are either from, or spent many productive years of their lives in the United States.
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References
External links
Articles by Drangein the Internet Infidel
Modern Library
1934 births
Living people
Philosophers from West Virginia
American atheists
Atheist philosophers
Philosophers of religion
Philosophy teachers
Cornell University alumni
West Virginia University faculty
Philosophers from New York (state)
Brooklyn College alumni
Brooklyn College faculty
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