Talk:John Perry (philosopher)

High School
I would like to add the following information and link: He attended Lincoln Southeast High School Class of 1960. I could include the following ref:

But I'm not sure if this is appropriate since it is not a readily available source. FooBar1943 (talk) 15:35, 4 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Though "readily available" is useful "reliable" is more important an reunion books can be a bit iffy in that people exaggerate their achievements but you are not using the reunion book to show his achievements but rather that he graduated from that school.  A key point is whether the "John Perry" in the reunion book matches the "John Perry" who is a Stanford professor and subject of this entry; is that sufficiently clear in the reunion book (you could quote what it says in the reference so people can check)?  Supporting evidence is Francis Jeffry Pelletier's bio http://www.sfu.ca/~jeffpell/bio.html; he went to the same school and later worked with John Perry in academically.  Put it in with the reference you have and see whether anyone has problems. --Erp (talk) 00:17, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Expansion
I recently expanded this article, but it could use expansion still, especially on the section about Perry's work. - Jaymay 08:05, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Dialogues
I think there is too much attention given to the dialogical format of A Digalogue.... This sentence in particular is particularly unnecessary.

"The format of associating different philosophical positions with different characters in a dialogue recalls David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion."

Aside from the fact that Hume's book is arbitrarily singled out here (wouldn't Plato make a more paradigmatic example?), it should be sufficient just to mention the dialogical format in passing.

his Ph.D. in philosophy from Cornell University in 1968 under the supervision of Sydney Shoemaker.talk) 06:22, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Disambiguation
Since John Richard Perry the philosopher is also to some degree a linguist, there is a possibility of mistaking him for John R. Perry, former professor of Persian etc. at the University of Chicago. The latter is also an acclaimed scholar and has written e.g. for the Encyclopaedia Iranica. I don't know what's the best way to help people avoid this confusion, so I'm just mentioning it here. 88.64.225.98 (talk) 06:41, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Shoemaker
Anyone got a cite for Perry getting his Ph.D. in philosophy under the supervision of Sydney Shoemaker? Can't find any verification for it. Cheers.

talk 5 June 2021