Wolfe Mays

{{Short description|British philosopher}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}

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|era = Contemporary philosophy

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|name = Wolfe Mays

|birth_date = 1912

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|death_date = 21 January 2005

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| school_tradition = Continental
Phenomenology

| main_interests = Phenomenology

| institutions = University of Manchester

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| doctoral_students = Barry Smith, Peter Simons, Kevin Mulligan

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| education = University of Cambridge (Ph.D.)

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Wolfe Mays (1912 – 21 January 2005) was a British philosopher. He was the founder of British Society for Phenomenology and the editor of its journal.{{cite journal |title=Wolfe Mays, 1912–2005 |journal=Radical Philosophy |url=https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/obituary/wolfe-mays-1912-2005 |access-date=13 November 2018}}

Mays is known for his efforts for introducing phenomenology in England.{{cite book |last1=Sokolowski |first1=Robert |title=Introduction to Phenomenology |date=2000 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521667920 |page=222 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v8lFXWE3g1YC&q=Wolfe+Mays+Kevin+Mulligan&pg=PA222 |access-date=13 November 2018 |language=en}} He taught at the University of Manchester from 1946 until his retirement in 1979.{{cite journal |last1=Garfield |first1=Mike |title=A Tribute in Memory of Wolfe Mays: Deceased 21st January 2005 |journal=Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology |date=January 2005 |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=115–117 |doi=10.1080/00071773.2005.11006535 |s2cid=170983924 |language=en |issn=0007-1773}} His students included Kevin Mulligan, Peter Simons, and Barry Smith.

He studied at Cambridge, where he attended the lectures of Ludwig Wittgenstein.{{cite book |title=Wittgenstein's Whewell's Court Lectures Cambridge, 1938 - 1941, From the Notes by Yorick Smythies |date=2017 |publisher=Wiley |page=252}}