Burleigh Taylor Wilkins

Burleigh Taylor Wilkins (born 1932 in Bridgetown, Virginia) is a professor in the Department of Philosophy of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
He studied at Duke University, (B.A. 1952); Harvard University (M.A., 1954); and Princeton University (M.A., 1963, Ph.D., 1965). He previously taught history at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia from 1956-57; humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1957-60; philosophy at Princeton University (1960-61, 1963) and at Rice University (1965-1967). He has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1968.
He has written a biography on Carl L. Becker, and books on the philosophies of Edmund Burke, Hegel, and Karl Popper.

• Carl Becker: a Biographical Study in American Intellectual History ISBN 978-0-262-23005-6
• The Problem of Burke's Political Philosophy ISBN 978-0-19-827162-8
• Hegel's Philosophy of History ISBN 0-8014-0819-9
• Has History Any Meaning?: A Critique of Popper's Philosophy of History ISBN 0-8014-1187-4
• Terrorism and Collective Responsibility ISBN 0-415-04152-X