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Detroit is home to Wayne State University, whose philosophy department employed Edmund Gettier and Alvin Plantinga in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Gettier taught there from 1957 to 1967, rising from instructor to associate professor, and Plantinga was an assistant professor there from 1958 until he returned to Calvin College in 1963. Wesley Salmon was born in Detroit in 1925 and studied at Wayne University in 1943-1944. Henry Odera Oruka took a master's degree at Wayne State in 1969 before teaching philosophy at the University of Nairobi.
When
- 1957–1967 Wayne State philosophy Gettier's years at Wayne State, overlapping Plantinga.
Schools and institutions
- Wayne State University Gettier and Plantinga taught here; Salmon and Oruka studied here.
Thinkers
- Edmund Gettier 1927 – 2021taught here, 1957–1967 (Taught at Wayne State University, rising from instructor to associate professor, before moving to UMass Amherst in 1967.)
- Alvin Plantinga b. 1932taught here, 1958–1963 (Appointed assistant professor at Wayne State University, Detroit, in 1958 and soon promoted; returned to Calvin College in 1963.)
- Wesley Salmon 1925 – 2001born here, 1925 (Born in Detroit on 9 August 1925; studied at Wayne University (now Wayne State) in 1943-1944.)
- H. Odera Oruka 1944 – 1995studied here, 1969 (Studied for a master's degree at Wayne State University, awarded in 1969.)
Sources: UMass Amherst Philosophy: In memoriam Edmund L. Gettier III · New Netherland Institute: Alvin C. Plantinga · SEP: Wesley Salmon · Philosophy Now: Henry Odera Oruka 1944-1995 · IEP: African Sage Philosophy