Burleigh Taylor Wilkins
Burleigh Taylor Wilkins was a professor in the Department of Philosophy of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
He studied at Duke University, ; Harvard University ; and Princeton University. He previously taught history at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia from 1956–57; humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1957–60; philosophy at Princeton University and at Rice University. He taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 1968 until 2012.
He has written a biography on Carl L. Becker, and books on the philosophies of Edmund Burke, Hegel, and Karl Popper.
Publications
- Carl Becker: a Biographical Study in American Intellectual History
- The Problem of Burke's Political Philosophy
- Hegel's Philosophy of History
- Has History Any Meaning?: A Critique of Popper's Philosophy of History
- Terrorism and Collective Responsibility