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Curt John Ducasse (7 July 1881, Angoulême, France - 3 September 1969) was a philosopher who taught at the University of Washington and Brown University. He is most notable for his work in philosophy of mind and aesthetics, and his influence can be seen in the work of Roderick Chisholm and Wilfrid Sellars. Ducasse served as the president of the Eastern division of the American Philosophical Association in 1939-40.

External links

• Biography from Brown.edu

Further reading

• Ducasse, Philosophy as a Science, (1941)
• Ducasse, Art, the Critics and You, (1944)
• Ducasse, Nature, Mind, and Death, (1951)
• Ducasse, A Philosophical Scrutiny of Religion, (1953)
• Ducasse, A Critical Examination of the Belief in a Life after Death, (1961)
• Ducasse, Truth, Knowledge, and Causation, (1968)
• P. H. Hare and Edward H. Madden, Causing, Perceiving and Believing: An Examination of the Philosophy of C. J. Ducasse, (1975)