Wallace Matson

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.

Biography

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

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

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