Category: Lives of Philosophers

Mary Midgley, a well-known British moral philosopher, has died at age 99.

John J. McDermott, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Texas A&M University, has died.

Albrecht Wellmer, emeritus professor of philosophy at Free University of Berlin, died on September 13th, age 85.

Stefan Baumrin, emeritus professor of philosophy at Lehman College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York (CUNY), and emeritus professor of…

Sylvain Bromberger, professor emeritus of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has died. 

Marco Dees, adjunct assistant professor of philosophy at Vassar College, has died. He was 33.

H. Tristram Engelhardt, Professor of History and Philosophy of Medicine at Rice University and Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, died last week,…

Philosopher Stanley Cavell, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, at Harvard University, has died.

Lynne Rudder Baker, Distinguished Professor Emerita in Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has died.