Richard Arthur Wollheim, an English philosopher, was born in London. After service in World War II, where he rose to captain, he returned to Balliol College, Oxford, first to continue the study of history (in which he received a bachelor of arts degree in 1946), then philosophy, politics, and economics (in which he received a bachelor of arts degree in 1948). He was Grote Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London, 1963–1982; professor of philosophy at Columbia University, 1982–1985; Mills Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, 1985–2002; and professor of philosophy and the humanities at the University of California at Davis, 1989–1996. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1972 and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986; and was vice-president of the British Society of Aesthetics, 1968–1993, and president, 1993–2003. His writings focused principally on two...