Theodore "Ted" Michael Drange (born 1934) is a
philosopher of religion and
Professor Emeritus at
West Virginia University, where he taught
philosophy
Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...
from 1966 to 2001.
Life
After graduating from Fort Hamilton High School, he received a
B.A. from
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls about 15,000 undergraduate and 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre campus.
Being New York City's first publ ...
in 1955 and a Ph.D. from
Cornell University 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 organization. In 1997, he debated Christian apologist
William Lane Craig 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
American philosophy is the activity, corpus, and tradition of philosophers affiliated with the United States. The ''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' notes that while it lacks a "core of defining features, American Philosophy can nevert ...
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List of American philosophers
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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