Does anyone know who was John Rawls’s PhD dissertation advisor? This question came up in discussion around here (a propos of nothing much at all) and no one knew, but I imagine at least one reader will know.

UPDATE: Micah Schwartzman posted the following reply over at Crooked Timber.

Rawls’s dissertation supervisor was Walter Stace. At least, that’s what Thomas Pogge says in an essay called “A Brief Sketch of Rawls’s Life,” reprinted in Richardson and Weithman, The Philosophy of Rawls: Development and Main Outlines of Rawls’s Theory of Justice (Garland, 1999). Apparently, Rawls also worked with Norman Malcolm and Max Black (author of that wonderful book, The Prevelance of Humbug and other Essays.)