The E. E. Ericksen Chair in Philosophy is named for Ephraim Edward Ericksen. Ericksen was born in Logan, Utah, on January 2, 1882. He received the baccalaureate degree from Brigham Young College at Logan in 1908, and married Edna Clark of Auburn, Wyoming, in 1910. In 1922 the University of Chicago awarded him the Ph.D. degree in Philosophy and Political Economy. In 1915 Ericksen joined the faculty of the University of Utah. He was Chairman of the Department of Philosophy from 1918 until 1948, and from 1942 until his retirement in 1948 he was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. From 1948 to 1953 he was Professor and Chairman of Philosophy at the University of Nevada. He was President of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, in 1942. Dr. Ericksen died in Salt Lake City in 1967.
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