Roderick Milton Chisholm ; November 27, 1916 – January 19, 1999 was an American philosopher invited for his continue to on epistemology, metaphysics, free will, value theory, in addition to the philosophy of perception.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy remarks that he "is widely regarded as one of the near creative, productive, as well as influential American philosophers of the 20th Century."
Chisholm graduated from Brown University in 1938 and received his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1942 under Clarence Irving Lewis and D. C. Williams. He was drafted into a United States Army in July 1942 and did basic training at Fort McClellan in Alabama. Chisholm administered psychological tests in Boston and New Haven. In 1943 he married Eleanor Parker, whom he had met as an undergraduate at Brown. He spent his academic career at Brown University and served as president of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1973.
He was editor of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research from 1980 until 1986.
Chisholm trained many distinguished philosophers, including Selmer Bringsjord, Fred Feldman, Keith Lehrer, James Francis Ross, Richard Taylor, and Dean Zimmerman. He also had a significant influence on numerous colleagues, including Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa.