Agnes Heller, a prolific Hungarian philosopher who as a child lost much of her family in the Holocaust and as a professor at the University of Budapest lost her job because she refused to testify that her mentor, György Lukács, committed political “crimes”, has died. (more…)

“Uncontroversial ideas need not less but more critical scrutiny, since they generally get such an easy ride.” Those are the words of John Gardner, Professor of Law and Philosophy and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University, who died last week at age 54. (more…)

Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias, professor emeritus at the University of San Marcos, by some accounts Peru’s “leading philosopher” and one of the most important Latin American philosophers of the 20th Century, died earlier this week.

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Joan Callahan, professor emerita of philosophy at the University of Kentucky, has died. (more…)

Ruth Anna Putnam, professor emerita of philosophy at Wellesley College, died this past Saturday. (more…)

Kwame Gyekye, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Ghana, has died. (more…)

James V. Schall, professor emeritus in the Department of Government at Georgetown University and the author of many works in political philosophy, religion, and education, has died. (more…)

Mary Warnock, a philosopher, crossbench peer of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and policy expert on education and biomedical ethics, died yesterday. (more…)

Anita Silvers, professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University (SFSU), has died.  (more…)

Sophie Oluwole, professor of philosophy at the University of Lagos (Unilag) and the first woman to receive a PhD in philosophy in Nigeria, has died. (more…)

Vere Chappell, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, died on January 28th, 2019. (more…)

John Tienson, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Memphis, has died. (more…)

Adolf Grünbaum, professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Philosophy of Science and its Department of History of Philosophy of Science, died this past Thursday. (more…)

Lawrence Becker, professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of William & Mary and fellow of Hollins University, has died.  (more…)

Pamela Huby, emeritus reader in philosophy at the University of Liverpool, has died.  (more…)

Mary Midgley, a well-known British moral philosopher, has died at age 99. (more…)

H. Tristram Engelhardt, Professor of History and Philosophy of Medicine at Rice University and Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, died last week, age 77. (more…)

Philosopher Stanley Cavell, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, at Harvard University, has died. (more…)

Vincent Shen, professor of philosophy and East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto, died this past Wednesday.  (more…)