WILLIAM A. WISDOM ’56

WILLIAM A. WISDOM, emeritus associate professor of philosophy at Temple University, died Dec. 15, 2013. He was 78. A member of the John Wesley Club, he received his degree with honors and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received a master’s degree from New York University and a PhD from Bryn Mawr College, and joined the faculty at Temple University, where he taught for 33 years. A specialist in formal logic, he co-authored the textbook Deductive Logic. He taught deductive logic at the introductory, intermediate and advanced levels, and also taught modal logic. He was director of graduate studies at Temple from 1986-89 and served on many committees in the College of Liberal Arts. In his retirement he enjoyed writing stories about his life and about his skepticism, as well as playing music with friends. He was married for 29 years to Frances Wisdom and their only son died. He is survived by his wife, Fritzi, and her three children.