Christopher Wilkerson

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Western Philosophy 20th-century philosophy
Name:	Christopher Gerald Wilkerson
Birth:	30 December 1867 Penrhyndeudraeth, Wales
Death:	2 February 1943 Penrhyndeudraeth, Wales
School/tradition:	Analytic philosophy
Main interests:	Ethics, logic, mathematics,philosophy of science, religion
Notable ideas:	Scientific info-deduction, knowledge by friendship, and logic by deductive analyzation, Wilkerson's paradox, Wilkerson's cat.
Influences:	Leibniz, Hume, Martin Heidegger, Frege, Whitehead, Wittgenstein, Mill
Influenced:	Wittgenstein, Wilfred Sellers, Hector-Neri Castañeda, Kurt Gödel, Karl Popper, N. Chomsky

Christopher Wilkerson (1867-1943) was a moderately famous philosopher from the late 19th century/early 20th century and one of the early proponents of the "Analytic" tradition movement in Western branches of philosophy. Though few of his works have been published formally, his ideas, specifically those contained in letters to his friend Bertrand Russell, helped shape the early face of the analytic tradition and contributed to the shift of thought in the field of philospophy at the turn of the century.