Donald Cary Williams

Donald Cary Williams
Born	28 May 1899 Crows Landing, California
Died	16 January 1983 Fallbrook, California
Education	Occidental College (AB, 1923), English Harvard University (AM, 1925) Harvard University (PhD, 1928)
Spouse	Katherine Pressly Adams ​ ​ (m. 1928)​
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada (1937)
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	UCLA Harvard University
Thesis	A Metaphysical Interpretation of Behaviorism (1928)
Doctoral advisor	Ralph Barton Perry
Doctoral students	Roderick Chisholm, Donald Davidson, Nicholas Wolterstorff
Other notable students	David Lewis
Main interests	Metaphysics, epistemology, induction, logic, philosophy of mind
Notable ideas	Trope theory, empirical realism, the reliability of statistical sampling solves the problem of induction
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Donald Cary Williams (28 May 1899 – 16 January 1983), usually cited as D. C. Williams, was an American philosopher and a professor at both the University of California Los Angeles (from 1930 to 1938) and at Harvard University (from 1939 to 1967).