John Daniel Wild
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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. He earned his master's degree from Harvard University and completed his PhD at the University of Chicago in 1926.
He worked at the University of Michigan and then at Harvard from 1927 to 1961, a leading center for phenomenology and existentialism in the United States. Wild went to Yale in 1963 and then to the University of Florida in 1969.
He received an honorary doctorate from Ripon College and served as a 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). Wild, alongside William A. Earle, James M. Edie, and others, established the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy in 1962.
In New Haven, Connecticut, John Wild died.