Matson was Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley (1955-1991) and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of Washington 1950–1955. Matson was an atheist. In 1978, he debated Thomas B. Warren on the existence of God.
Books
The Existence of God (1965)
Sentience (1976)
A History of Philosophy (1968), revised and published in 2 volumes as A New History of Philosophy (1987), and revised again (2000)
The Warren-Matson Debate on the Existence of God (1978)
Uncorrected Papers (2006)
Grand Theories and Everyday Beliefs: Science, Philosophy, and Their Histories, Oxford University Press, 2011
References
↑Craig, William L. (1 June 1979). "Wallace matson and the crude cosmological argument". Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 57 (2): 163–170. doi:10.1080/00048407912341171. ISSN0004-8402.
