Cain Samuel Todd, senior lecturer in philosophy at Lancaster University, has died.

Dr. Todd was known for his work in aesthetics and the philosophy of mind, with a keen interest in issues surrounding values and our access to them.

He is the author of The Philosophy of Wine: A Case of Truth, Beauty and Intoxication (2010) and papers including “Imaginability, morality, and fictional truth: Dissolving the puzzle of ‘imaginative resistance” (2009), “Attending Emotionally to Fiction” (2012), “Fitting Feelings and Elegant Proofs: On the Psychology of Aesthetic Evaluation in Mathematics” (2018) and “Affective Memory, Imagined Emotion, and Bodily Imagery” (2023). You can learn more about his work here.

Todd started teaching at Lancaster University in 2003 after having earned his PhD in philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Geneva and Fribourg in Switzerland, at the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris, at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Münich, where he was the recipient of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (2022-3), and at the University of Notre Dame.

He died unexpectedly on July 23rd, 2026.

(The information for this memorial notice was provided by Fabrice Teroni.)