John Daniel Wild

John Daniel Wild
Born	April 10, 1902 Chicago, Illinois
Died	October 23, 1972 New Haven, Connecticut
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Empiricism, Realism, Pragmatism, Existentialism, Phenomenology
Influences Plato, William James, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty

John Daniel Wild (April 10, 1902 – October 23, 1972) was a twentieth-century American philosopher. Wild began his philosophical career as an empiricist and realist but became an important proponent of existentialism and phenomenology in the United States.

Life and career

Wild was born in Chicago, Illinois. After undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago, he received his master's degree from Harvard University and completed his PhD at the University of Chicago in 1926.

He taught for a year at the University of Michigan and then at Harvard from 1927 until 1961 when he left to assume the chairmanship of the philosophy department at Northwestern University, a leading center for phenomenology and existentialism in the United States. Wild moved to Yale in 1963 and, in 1969, to the University of Florida.

He received an honorary doctorate from Ripon College and served as visiting professor at the Universities of Chicago, Hawaii, and Washington. He served as president of the Association for Realistic Philosophy (1949) and the Metaphysical Society of America (1954). In 1962 Wild, along with William A. Earle, James M. Edie, and others, founded the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.

John Wild died in New Haven, Connecticut.

Major works

Books

• 552 pages.

• 320 pages.

• 516 pages.

• ISBN 0-8191-3890-8 (paper).

• 259 pages.

• 297 pages.

• ISBN 0-313-21127-2.

• 250 pages.

• 186 pages.

• 243 pages.

• 430 pages.

• ISBN 0-313-22641-5.

Books edited

• 479 pages.

• 117 pages.

• 373 pages.

See also

• American philosophy
• List of American philosophers

Further reading

• 414 pages.

• 226 pages. ISBN 0-8204-2796-9.

• 289 pages. ISBN 0-7391-1366-6.