William Walker Tait (born 1929) is an emeritus professor of

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at the

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, where he served as a faculty member from 1972 to 1996, and as department chair from 1981 to 1987.

Education and career

Tait received his B.A. from

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in 1952, and his Ph.D. from

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in 1958.

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served as his doctoral advisor. Prior to teaching at Chicago he held positions at

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from 1958 to 1964, the

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from 1965 to 1971, and the

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from 1971 to 1972. In 1966 he signed a tax resistance vow to protest the Vietnam War. In 2002 he was elected as a

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of the

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.Emeritus faculty
University of Chicago Philosophy Department.

Publications

*Early analytic philosophy : Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein : essays in honor of Leonard Linsky / edited by William W. Tait. Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, c1997. vii, 291 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. (cloth : alk. paper), (pbk. : alk. paper) * Tait, William W. The provenance of pure reason : essays in the philosophy of mathematics and its history / William Tait. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005. viii, 332 p. : ill., ; 25 cm. *

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Official Chicago page
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