British philosopher. He studied at Cambridge, and became professor there (195268) and at the University of Oregon (196872). He was profoundly influenced by Wittgenstein, but developed a distinctive mode and style of philosophizing which represented philosophical paradoxes as revealing partial truths rather than linguistic confusions. His most important works are Other Minds (1952), Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (1953), and Paradox and Discovery (1965).
John Wisdom (1904–1993) was an ordinary language philosopher and philosopher of mind.
Wisdom taught at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in the UK and, near the end of his career, at the University of Oregon in the US.
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