The Will Miller Reader

• Preliminary Edition, April 2005 [PDF]

Willard ("Will") Marshall Miller, Assistant Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, began teaching at the University of Vermont (UVM) in 1969. A tireless educator and activist, he died of cancer in 2005 at age 64 before officially retiring from UVM.

Born in Chicago, Miller dropped out of public school at age 17 to enlist and serve in the U.S. Army Security Agency for three years. After getting his GED, he studied at the University of Illinois earning his Ph.D. in Philosophy.

Miller built his own home in Westford, Vermont, was a proficient electrician and left a legacy of community service and public engagement. He was involved in numerous academic, labor and political organizations including the Radical Philosophy Association, John Dewey Society, Green Mountain Veterans for Peace, United Academics (AAUP/AFT), Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism, Green Mountain Fund for Popular Struggle, Burlington Area Draft and Military Counseling, Vermont Cuba Committee, Haymarket People's Fund, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador and the Global Justice Ecology Project. He advised student organizations including the Radical Student Union and SPARC and taught classes on Marxism, the philosophy of education, American philosophy, radical ecology and utopian societies. His articles have been published in Monthly Review, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Earth First! Journal and the Vermont Vanguard Press.

The Will Miller Reader collects articles from his academic work, community service and political activism.

To support future editions of this publication and make available more of Will's writings please consider contributing to the Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series. The organization is capable of making available Will's ideas and writings and honors Will's work by sponsoring a lecture series. More information can be found in the Appendix or on the Will Miller Memorial web site. http://www.willmiller.org/