James “Jim” Bogen, a longtime professor of philosophy at Pitzer College as well as an adjunct professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, has died.

Professor Bogen was known for his work on various topics in the philosophy and history of science, including the epistemology of science, causation, and the philosophy of neuroscience, as well as on the ideas of Wittgenstein and Aristotle. He is the author of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Language: Some Aspects of Its Development, as well as articles such as “Epistemological Custard Pies from Functional Brain Imaging“, “`Two as good as a hundred’: Poorly Replicated Evidence in Some Nineteenth-Century Neuroscientific Research“, and, with Jim Woodward, “Evading the IRS” and “Observations, Theories and the Evolution of the Human Spirit“, among many others. In 2013 he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his research in the philosophy of science. You can learn more about his writings here.

Bogen joined the Pittsburgh HPS faculty after his retirement from Pitzer College in 2001, where he had taught since 1967. Prior to that, he was a faculty member at Oberlin College. He earned his MA and PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and his BA from Pomona College.

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