Dudley Shapere

{{short description|American philosopher}}

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|name = Dudley Shapere

|birth_date = May 27, 1928

|birth_place = Harlingen, Texas

|death_date = December 26, 2016 (aged 92)

|death_place = Winston-Salem

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| institutions = Wake Forest College, Ohio State University, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Maryland

|main_interests = philosophy of science

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|parents = Abraham Dudley Shapere (1892-1941) and Corinne Pupkin

| spouse=Hannah Hardgrave

| education = Harvard University (PhD)

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Dudley Shapere (May 27, 1928 - December 26, 2016) was an American philosopher and Reynolds Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy and History of Science at Wake Forest College.{{cite journal |title=Notes and News |journal=The Journal of Philosophy |date=1966 |volume=63 |issue=15 |pages=447–451 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2024066 |issn=0022-362X}}

He is known for his works on philosophy of science.{{cite web |last1=Cox |first1=Kevin |title=Reynolds Professor Emeritus Dudley Shapere |url=https://inside.wfu.edu/2017/01/reynolds-professor-emeritus-dudley-shapere/ |website=Inside WFU - news for faculty and staff |language=en |date=4 January 2017}}{{cite web |title=Obituary information for Dudley Shapere |url=https://www.salemfh.com/obituaries/Dudley-Shapere?obId=3857784}}{{cite journal |last1=Harrison |first1=Karey |title=Shapere, Dudley: "Reason and the Search for Knowledge" |journal=Australasian Journal of Philosophy |date=1985 |volume=63 |issue=4 |pages=558–560 |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/HARSDR}}{{cite journal |last1=Nickles |first1=Thomas |title=Dudley Shapere, Reason and the Search for Knowledge. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 78. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company (1984), xiv + 438 pp. $59.50. |journal=Philosophy of Science |date=June 1985 |volume=52 |issue=2 |pages=310–312 |doi=10.1086/289246 |url=https://doi.org/10.1086/289246 |language=en |issn=0031-8248|url-access=subscription }}