Category: Lives of Philosophers

David Efird, senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of York, died unexpectedly last Thursday.

Roger Scruton, a philosopher who for many years taught at Birkbeck College, London, held various other academic appointments, wrote extensively for the public, and…

Stephen F. Barker, professor emeritus of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, has died. 

Jaegwon Kim, professor emeritus of philosophy at Brown University, has died.

James Griffin, a philosopher who spent much of his career at Oxford University, died last Thursday.

Michael (“Mic”) Detlefsen, the McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has died.

Rom Harré, a wide-ranging thinker whose academic career included over 30 years as part of the philosophy faculty at Oxford University, followed by over…

Miguel León-Portilla, emeritus professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and “the world’s foremost authority on Náhuatl philology and philosophy,” has died.

Myles Burnyeat, emeritus fellow at Oxford University’s All Souls College and emeritus professor of philosophy at Cambridge University’s Robinson College, has died.

André Norman Gallois, emeritus professor of philosophy at Syracuse University, died earlier this month.

John N. Williams, a philosopher who spent much of his career working in Singapore, and who had just last year taken up a position as…

Barry Stroud, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, died last week.

“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…

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…

Joan Callahan, professor emerita of philosophy at the University of Kentucky, has died.