Editing Roderick Chisholm (section)

==Life and career==

Chisholm graduated from [[Brown University]] in 1938 and received his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] at [[Harvard University]] in 1942 under [[Clarence Irving Lewis]] and [[Donald Cary Williams|D. C. Williams]].  He was drafted into the [[United States Army]] in July 1942 and did basic training at [[Fort McClellan]] in [[Alabama]]. Chisholm administered [[psychological]] tests in [[Boston]] and [[New Haven]]. In 1943 he married Eleanor Parker, whom he had met as an undergraduate at Brown.<ref>{{cite book |last=Chisholm |first=Roderick |url=https://archive.org/details/philosophyofrode0000chi |title=The philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm |publisher=Open Court |year=1997 |isbn=0-8126-9357-4 |location=Chicago |pages=1–9 |chapter=My Philosophical Development |url-access=registration}}</ref>  He spent his academic career at [[Brown University]] and served as president of the [[Metaphysical Society of America]] in 1973.

He was editor of ''[[Philosophy and Phenomenological Research]]'' from 1980 until 1986.

Chisholm trained many distinguished philosophers, including   [[Selmer Bringsjord]], [[Fred Feldman (philosopher)|Fred Feldman]], [[Keith Lehrer]], [[James Francis Ross]], [[Richard Clyde Taylor|Richard Taylor]], and [[Dean Zimmerman (philosopher)|Dean Zimmerman]]. He also had a significant influence on many colleagues, including [[Jaegwon Kim]] and [[Ernest Sosa]].