Wild was born in Chicago, Illinois. After undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago, he received his masters degree from Harvard University and completed his PhD at the University of Chicago in 1926.

He taught for a year at the University of Michigan and then at Harvard from 1927 until 1961 when he left to assume the chairmanship of the philosophy department at Northwestern University. Wild moved to Yale in 1963 and, in 1969, to the University of Florida.

He received an honorary doctorate from Ripon College and served as visiting professor at the Universities of Chicago, Hawaii, and Washington. In 1949 he served as president of the Association for Realistic Philosophy. In 1962 Wild, along with William A. Earle, James M. Edie, and others, founded the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.

John Wild died in New Haven, Connecticut.

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