Wallace Matson

Wallace Matson
Born	1921
Died	2012
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral students	Brian E. O'Neil

Wallace I. Matson (1921-2012) was an American philosopher and a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his works on the existence of God.^[1]

Biography

Matson was Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley (1955-1991) and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of Washington 1950–1955.^[2] Matson was an atheist. In 1978, he debated Thomas B. Warren on the existence of God.^[3]

Books

• The Existence of God (1965)
• Sentience (1976)
• A History of Philosophy (1968), revised and published in 2 volumes as A New History of Philosophy (1987), and revised again (2000)
• The Warren-Matson Debate on the Existence of God (1978)
• Uncorrected Papers (2006)
• Grand Theories and Everyday Beliefs: Science, Philosophy, and Their Histories, Oxford University Press, 2011^[4]

References

1. Craig, William L. (1 June 1979). "Wallace matson and the crude cosmological argument". Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 57 (2): 163–170. doi:10.1080/00048407912341171. ISSN 0004-8402.
2. "Wallace I. Matson". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
3. "The Warren-Matson debate on the existence of God". Index Theologicus. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
4. "Grand Theories and Everyday Beliefs: Science, Philosophy, and Their Histories". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 10 February 2021.