Lives of Philosophers
CategoryJohn O’Connor (1937-2021)
John Morris O’Connor III, professor emeritus of philosophy at William Paterson University, has died. (more…)
Linda López McAlister (1939-2021)
Linda López McAlister, professor emerita of philosophy and women’s and gender studies at the University of South Florida (USF), died last month. (more…)
Gift Guide 2021: A Few of Your Favorite Things
I’ve been producing gift guides at Daily Nous for several years now—see the ones for 2019 or 2018, for example—but I thought I’d do things a bit differently this year. (more…)
Bernard Rollin (1943-2021)
Bernard “Bernie” Elliot Rollin, professor emeritus of philosophy, animal sciences, and biomedical sciences at Colorado State University, has died. (more…)
Philosophers On How the Pandemic Has Changed Us
In this group post, philosophers reflect on how the pandemic has transformed higher education, our everyday lives and practices, and ourselves.
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Gilbert Harman (1938-2021)
Gilbert (Gil) Harman, professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, has died. (more…)
Mary Rowland Haight (1938-2021)
Mary Rowland Haight, a long time member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, has died. (more…)
Lilli Alanen (1941-2021)
Lilli Alanen, professor emerita of philosophy at Uppsala University, has died. (more…)
Rudolf Makkreel (1939-2021)
Rudolf Makkreel, professor emeritus of philosophy at Emory University, has died. (more…)
Brian Penrose (1956-2021)
Brian Penrose, a long-time member of the Philosophy Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, died last month. The following guest post is by his former colleagues at Wits.
Charles Mills (1951-2021) (updated)
Charles W. Mills, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), has died. (more…)
James L. Marsh (1937-2021)
James L. Marsh, professor emeritus of philosophy at Fordham University, died this past summer. (more…)
Alex Orenstein (1936-2018)
Alex Orenstein, a philosopher at Queens College beginning in 1968 and also at the City University of New York Graduate Center beginning in 1974, died in June of 2018. His death was not noted here at that time. To make up for this, David Rosenthal (CUNY) has sent in the following memorial notice, which he wrote with some of Professor Orenstein’s friends. (more…)
Jorge Leoncio Soler (1924-2021)
Jorge Leoncio Soler, a retired professor of philosophy at Gallaudet University, has died. (more…)
Joseph Koterski (1953-2021)
Joseph Koterski, a professor of philosophy at Fordham University, has died. (more…)
Tanya Rodriguez (1972-2021)
Tanya Rodriguez, associate professor of philosopher at Sacramento City College, has died. (more…)
Sarah Broadie (1941-2021)
Sarah Jean Broadie (née Waterlow), professor of philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, has died. (more…)
Children, Academia, and the Life of the Mind
“If children take time away from a habit of intellectual activity that is bad in itself, it’s hardly a real accusation against them.” (more…)
Jeffrey H. Barker (1957-2021)
Jeffrey H. Barker, professor of philosophy and president of Converse University, has died. (more…)
Richard Double (1948-2021)
Richard Double, emeritus professor and former chair of philosophy at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, has died. (more…)
Jorge J. E. Gracia (1942-2021)
Jorge J.E. Gracia, professor emeritus of philosophy and comparative literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo, has died. (more…)
Interview with Peter Hacker
“Philosophical investigation must engage with a significant part of our forms of thought and reasoning, with a large fragment of our conceptual scheme. Otherwise it is of little value to its author, and probably of little value to its readers.” (more…)
Aryeh Kosman (1935-2021)
Aryeh Kosman, professor emeritus of philosophy at Haverford College, has died. (more…)
Underappreciated Philosophical Friendships
In a new article, Michael Kremer (University of Chicago) describes the results of some philosophical detective work he did uncovering the “philosophical friendship” of Margaret McDonald and Gilbert Ryle. (more…)
Joseph Margolis (1924-2021)
Joseph Margolis, professor of philosophy at Temple University, has died. (more…)
Frithjof Bergmann (1930-2021)
Frithjof Bergmann, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, has died. (more…)
Robert Ammerman (1927-2021)
Robert R. Ammerman, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has died. (more…)
Christoph Jamme (1953-2021)
Christoph Jamme, professor of philosophy at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, has died. (more…)