A Tribute

Abstract

Roderick Chisholm’s intellectual stature needs no testimonials. His greatness as a teacher, and particularly as an inspiration to graduate students, is less well known. I am going to write of this, placing my remarks in the setting of a particular time and place that it was one of my greatest fortunes to belong to. I am sure that no student or colleague, during that time, knew Chisholm better than I. Certainly none was more profoundly influenced by him. That setting now belongs very much to the past. I have had no association with Chisholm for over a decade, and my own philosophical thinking has taken directions in which he would probably find it impossible still to recognize any of his influence. It is for this reason that I shall express myself in the manner appropriate to historical narrative.