Paul Weiss

1901 – 2002

Paul Weiss (1901–2002) was an American systematic philosopher who spent most of his career at Yale University, where he developed a comprehensive metaphysical system engaging questions of being, modes of existence, and the nature of reality. He co-founded the Review of Metaphysics (1947) and the Metaphysical Society of America, and remained one of the last major practitioners of grand systematic metaphysics in the Anglo-American tradition. His later work extended to philosophy of sport, art, and religion.