David Randall Luce was born in Boston on February 22, 1927. He served in the United States
Navy from 1944 to 1946. Luce received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from Dartmouth in
1950 and his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1957. He taught at
the University of Arkansas from 1957 to 1959. In 1959 Luce took a temporary part-time
appointment at the University of Minnesota because he refused to sign an affidavit required
of all teachers at the University of Arkansas in 1958 called the "Act 10," which, in 1960,
the U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional. Luce joined the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dept. of Philosophy in 1960 as an assistant professor, and became an
associate professor in 1966. Luce served as chair of the department from 1970 to 1972. He
retired in 1997 and thereafter continued on as an associate professor emeritus. David Luce
passed away in 2014.
