Paul Weiss | |
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| Born | May 19, 1901 New York City, US |
| Died | July 5, 2002 (aged 101) Washington, D.C., US |
| Education | City College of New York (BA) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Process philosophy |
| Institutions | Yale University Catholic University of America |
| Thesis | The Nature of Systems (1929) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alfred North Whitehead |
| Doctoral students | Alvin Plantinga Richard Rorty Robert Spitzer |
Main interests | Metaphysics |
Notable ideas | Being consists of a plurality of individuals that are unified by universality, which gives a structure to all there is |
Paul Weiss (/waɪs/; May 19, 1901 – July 5, 2002) was an American philosopher. He was the founder of The Review of Metaphysics and the Metaphysical Society of America.