Charles W. Hendel
Professor Emeritus, Yale University 1890 1982
Charles William Hendel Jr. (16 December 1890 – 12 November 1982) was an American philosopher and Hume scholar. He was elected as the President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 1940 until 1941 as well as the president of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy from 1959 until 1961. He is well known to be a David Hume scholar who edited used editions of Hume's major work.
Early life and education
Charles William Hendel Jr. was born on 16 December 1890 in Reading, Pennsylvania to Charles William Hendel Sr. and Emma Leninger Stolz Hendel.
In 1916, Hendel married Elizabeth Jones and had two children together, Elizabeth and Charles William III.
Hendel attended Princeton University and received the Bachelor of Letters in 1913. He then subsequently studied at Marburg University at the same year until 1914, where he then educated at the Collège de France. He then went back to America to graduate at Princeton with a Ph.D. in 1917.
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