Editing Roderick Chisholm (section)

{{Short description|American philosopher (1916–1999)}}
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{{Infobox philosopher
| name             = Roderick Chisholm
| birth_name       = Roderick Milton Chisholm
| image            =Roderick Chisholm Pembroke Record.jpg 
| caption          =Chisholm, {{circa}} 1955 
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|1916|11|27|mf=y}}
| birth_place      = [[North Attleboro, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|1999|1|19|1916|11|27}}
| death_place      = [[Providence, Rhode Island]], U.S.
| alma_mater       = [[Brown University]]<br/>[[Harvard University]]
| nationality      = [[United States|American]]
| era              = [[20th-century philosophy]]
| region           = [[Western philosophy]]
| school_tradition = [[Analytic philosophy]]
| main_interests   = [[Epistemology]]<br/>[[Metaphysics]]
| notable_ideas    = [[Direct attribution theory of reference]], [[contrary-to-fact conditional]], [[Latitudinarianism (philosophy)|latitudinarianism]]
| institutions     = [[Brown University]]
| doctoral_advisor  = [[C. I. Lewis]], [[Donald Cary Williams|D. C. Williams]]
| doctoral_students = [[Richard Cartwright (philosopher)|Richard Cartwright]],<ref>John R. Shook (ed.), ''Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers'', Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005, p. 444.</ref> [[Dale Jacquette]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rescher |first1=Nicholas |title=Obituary, Dale Jacquette |url=https://www.alws.at/alws_news/obituary-dale-jacquette/ |website=Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society |access-date=9 September 2020}}</ref> [[Charles Taliaferro]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://library.brown.edu/theses/theses.php?task=search&id=13362 |title=Taliaferro, Charles |website=Brown University Theses and Dissertations |access-date=9 September 2020}}</ref> [[Dean Zimmerman (philosopher)|Dean Zimmerman]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://library.brown.edu/theses/theses.php?task=search&id=15074 |title=Zimmerman, Dean Wallace |website=Brown University Theses and Dissertations |access-date=9 September 2020}}</ref> [[Richard Clyde Taylor]]
| thesis_title      = The Basic Propositions of the Theory of Knowledge
| thesis_url        =
| thesis_year       = 1942
}}
'''Roderick Milton Chisholm''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|tʃ|ɪ|z|ə|m}}; November 27, 1916 – January 19, 1999)<ref>''Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers'' (2005), p. 475.</ref> was an [[American philosopher]] known for his work on [[epistemology]], [[metaphysics]], [[free will]], [[value theory]], [[deontology]], [[deontic logic]] and the [[philosophy of perception]].

Richard and [[Fred Feldman]], writing in the ''[[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]],'' remark that he "is widely regarded as one of the most creative, productive, and influential American philosophers of the 20th Century."<ref name=":1">{{Citation |last1=Feldman |first1=Richard |title=Roderick Chisholm |date=2021 |encyclopedia=[[The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]] |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2021/entries/chisholm/ |access-date=2024-01-21 |edition=Summer 2021 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |last2=Feldman |first2=Fred |author-link2=Fred Feldman |editor2-last=Nodelman |editor2-first=Uri |editor1-link=Edward N. Zalta}}</ref>