10 Facts About Nicholas Wolterstorff

Nicholas Paul Wolterstorff was born on January 21, 1932 and is an American philosopher and theologian.

Nicholas Wolterstorff is currently Noah Porter Professor Emeritus Philosophical Theology at Yale University.

Nicholas Wolterstorff helped to establish the journal Faith and Philosophy and the Society of Christian Philosophers.

Nicholas Wolterstorff was born on January 21, 1932, to Dutch emigrants in a small farming community in southwest Minnesota.

Nicholas Wolterstorff is teaching at Yale as Noah Porter Professor Emeritus Philosophical Theology.

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In 1987 Nicholas Wolterstorff published Lament for a Son after the untimely death of his 25-year-old son Eric in a mountain climbing accident.

Nicholas Wolterstorff explained that he published the book "in the hope that it will be of help to some of those who find themselves with us in the company of mourners.

Nicholas Wolterstorff has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, the University of Oxford, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Texas, the University of Michigan, Temple University, the Free University of Amsterdam, and the University of Virginia.

Instead of reasoning about transcendental conditions of knowledge, Nicholas Wolterstorff suggests that knowledge and our knowing faculties are not the subject of our research but have to be seen as its starting point.

Nicholas Wolterstorff rejects classical foundationalism and instead sees knowledge as based upon insights in reality which are direct and indubitable.