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DALLAS WILLARD is a Professor in the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California in

Los Angeles. He has taught at USC since 1965, where he was Director of the School of Philosophy from
1982-1985. He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin (Madison, 1960-1965), and has held visiting
appointments at UCLA (1969) and the University of Colorado (1984).
His undergraduate studies were at William Jewell College, Tennessee Temple College (B.A., 1956,
Psychology) and Baylor University (B.A., 1957, Philosophy and Religion); and his Graduate education was
at Baylor University and the University of Wisconsin (Ph. D., 1964: Major in Philosophy, Minor in the
History of Science).

His philosophical publications are mainly in the areas of epistemology, the philosophy of mind and of
logic, and on the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, including extensive translations of Husserl's early
writings from German into English. His English translation and edition of Edmund Husserl's Philosophy of
Arithmetic was released in September, 2003. His Logic and the Objectivity of Knowledge, a study of
Husserl's early philosophy, appeared in 1984, and his Early Writings in the Philosophy of Logic and
Mathematics (1993) makes available to the English reader nearly all of the shorter philosophical works
that Husserl produced on the way to the phenomenological breakthrough recorded in his Logical
Investigations of 1900-1901.
He also lectures and publishes in religion. Renovation of the Heart was published in May 2002, and
received Christianity Today's 2003 Book Award in the category of Spirituality. The Divine Conspiracy was
released in 1998 and selected Christianity Today's "Book of the Year" for 1999. The Spirit of the
Disciplines appeared in 1988, and Hearing God (1999) first appeared as In Search of Guidance in 1984
(2nd edition in 1993).
He has served on the boards of the C.S. Lewis Foundation and Biola University, and is a member of
numerous evaluation committees for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (accreditation). His
academic honors include:
ALPHA LAMBDA DELTA National Honor Society, Initiation May 1991

Lecturer in Corsi Estivi Internazionali di Filosofia, Bozen, Italy, 1990

PHI KAPPA PHI National Honor Society, Initiation in May 1990

USC Student Senate Award for Outstanding Faculty of the Year, 1984

Faculty participant in the COLLEGIUM PHAENOMENOLOGICUM at Monteripido (Perugia,


Italy), summer 1977

USC Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1976-1977

Recipient (1976) of Blue Key National Honor Fraternity's "Outstanding Faculty Member" award for
outstanding contributions to student life at USC

Danforth Associate 1967-1975

Dallas Albert Willard was born in Buffalo, Missouri, USA, September 4, 1935. He married Jane Lakes of
Macon, Georgia, in 1955. They live in Southern California, where Jane is a Marriage and Family Therapist.
They have two children, John and Rebecca, and a granddaughter, Larissa.

During the C.S. Lewis Foundation’s Western Regional Conference at the University of San Diego on June
19-22, 2003, Dr. Willard was asked to speak at a Faculty Forum luncheon on the topic, "My Journey To and
Beyond Tenure in a Secular University."

From http://www.dwillard.org/biography/default.asp

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