Category: Lives of Philosophers

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

Kwame Gyekye, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Ghana, has died.

James V. Schall, professor emeritus in the Department of Government at Georgetown University and the author of many works in political philosophy, religion, and…

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

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

Pamela Huby, emeritus reader in philosophy at the University of Liverpool, has died. 

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

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

Maite Ezcurdia, research fellow at the Institute of Philosophical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), has died.

John Tienson, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Memphis, has died.

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

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…

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