1923 – 2002
Rogers Albritton (1923–2002) was an American analytic philosopher known for his influential teaching at Harvard and UCLA and for a small but incisive body of published work on Descartes, Wittgenstein, and the philosophy of action. His 1985 APA Presidential Address 'Freedom of Will and Freedom of Action' became a landmark critique of modal analyses of ability and a defense of the freedom of the will.
Delivered the influential 1985 APA Presidential Address 'Freedom of Will and Freedom of Action'
Argued against modal analyses of ability and for the unconditional freedom of the will
Shaped generations of philosophers through teaching at Harvard and UCLA
Contributed notable interpretive work on Descartes and Wittgenstein