'Richard Ladd Kirkham',
American
philosopher, was born
18 June 1955. Among his published works are ''Theories of Truth'' (MIT Press, 1992), "Does the Gettier Problem Rest on a Mistake?" ''Mind'' (
1984. Vol.93, No.372), and "On Paradoxes and a Surprise Exam" ''Philosophia'' (1991). Kirkham graduated from
Cornell College in 1977 and received his Ph.D. from the
University of Notre Dame in 1983.