Lives of Philosophers
CategoryRosamond K. Sprague (1922-2022)
Rosamond Kent Sprague, professor emerita of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, has died. (more…)
David H. Sanford (1937-2022)
David H. Sanford, professor emeritus of philosophy at Duke University, has died. (more…)
Sydney Shoemaker (1931-2022)
Sydney Shoemaker, professor emeritus of philosophy at Cornell University, has died. (more…)
Nel Noddings (1929-2022)
Nel Noddings (professor emerita of education at Stanford University), a philosopher well-known for her development of an “ethics of care,” died on August 25th. (more…)
Larry Laudan (1941-2022)
Larry Laudan, an influential philosopher of science and law, died on August 23rd, 2022. (more…)
Paul Humphreys (1950-2022)
Paul Humphreys, Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia, has died. (more…)
Donald W. Crawford (1938-2022)
The following is an obituary for Donald W. Crawford (UC Santa Barbara, University of Wisconsin), authored by Elliott Sober, his colleague at Wisconsin, and Yuriko Saito, professor emerita at Rhode Island School of Design, who was one of his students. (more…)
J.E. “Ted” McGuire (1931-2022)
James E. “Ted” McGuire, professor emeritus of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh, has died. (more…)
Joseph Raz (1939-2022)
Joseph Raz, one of the most influential legal, political, and moral philosophers over the past 50 years, has died. (more…)
William E. Mann (1940-2022)
William E. Mann, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Vermont, died on March 8th, 2022. (more…)
“The Way Philosophy Is Personal”
Wittgenstein’s early private notebooks have just been published in English, translated by Marjorie Perloff (Stanford). Towards the end of an essay about them, Kieran Setiya (MIT) draws attention to “the way philosophy is personal.” (more…)
Frank Cunningham (1940-2022)
Frank Cunningham, professor emeritus of philosophy and political science at the University of Toronto, has died. (more…)
Kah Kyung Cho (1927-2022)
Kah Kyung Cho, emeritus professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, has died. (more…)
Kwasi Wiredu (1931-2022)
Kwasi Wiredu, who was a professor of philosophy at the University of Ghana for over two decades, and later emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida, has died. (more…)
Theodore Kisiel (1930-2021)
Theodore Kisiel, professor emeritus of philosophy at Northern Illinois University, has died. (more…)
Michael Inwood (1944-2021) (updated)
Michael Inwood, emeritus fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, has died. (more…)
John O’Connor (1937-2021)
John Morris O’Connor III, professor emeritus of philosophy at William Paterson University, has died. (more…)
Linda López McAlister (1939-2021)
Linda López McAlister, professor emerita of philosophy and women’s and gender studies at the University of South Florida (USF), died last month. (more…)
Gift Guide 2021: A Few of Your Favorite Things
I’ve been producing gift guides at Daily Nous for several years now—see the ones for 2019 or 2018, for example—but I thought I’d do things a bit differently this year. (more…)
Bernard Rollin (1943-2021)
Bernard “Bernie” Elliot Rollin, professor emeritus of philosophy, animal sciences, and biomedical sciences at Colorado State University, has died. (more…)
Philosophers On How the Pandemic Has Changed Us
In this group post, philosophers reflect on how the pandemic has transformed higher education, our everyday lives and practices, and ourselves.
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Gilbert Harman (1938-2021)
Gilbert (Gil) Harman, professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, has died. (more…)
Mary Rowland Haight (1938-2021)
Mary Rowland Haight, a long time member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, has died. (more…)
Lilli Alanen (1941-2021)
Lilli Alanen, professor emerita of philosophy at Uppsala University, has died. (more…)
Rudolf Makkreel (1939-2021)
Rudolf Makkreel, professor emeritus of philosophy at Emory University, has died. (more…)
Brian Penrose (1956-2021)
Brian Penrose, a long-time member of the Philosophy Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, died last month. The following guest post is by his former colleagues at Wits.
Charles Mills (1951-2021) (updated)
Charles W. Mills, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), has died. (more…)
James L. Marsh (1937-2021)
James L. Marsh, professor emeritus of philosophy at Fordham University, died this past summer. (more…)