Rogers Garland Albritton (August 15, 1923 – May 21, 2002) was an American philosopher who served as chair of the Harvard and UCLA philosophy departments.
He published little (only five research papers during his lifetime) and inspired the entry "albritton" - a contraction of "all but written" - in the Philosophical Lexicon begun by Daniel Dennett (said entry having had its origins in a family joke).
[5] He was admitted to Swarthmore at the age of 15 but left to serve in the Army Air Corps in World War II.
In 1984 he was president of the Western (then Pacific) Division of the American Philosophical Association.
Of his limited publication rate, his New York Times obituarist remarked:[9]"Dr. Albritton's penchant for always questioning a conclusion led him to avoid the permanency of the written word.
This was unusual, because free will had been identified with freedom of action by compatibilists since Thomas Hobbes and David Hume.