Lives of Philosophers
CategoryMaría Lugones (1944-2020)
María Lugones, Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Binghamton University, has died. (more…)
David Hugh Mellor (1938-2020)
David Hugh Mellor (known as D.H. or Hugh Mellor), professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Cambridge, has died. (more…)
Ronald Giere (1938-2020)
Ronald Giere, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, has died. (more…)
Charles Guignon (1944-2020)
Charles Guignon, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of South Florida, died this past weekend. (more…)
Karen Neander (1954-2020) (updated)
Karen Neander, professor of philosophy and linguistics at Duke University, has died. (more…)
“I can do both these jobs. But can I do them both at once?”
“Is Aristotle a person, or is he a subject that you study?” This is a question from my youngest son, a star, a tap-dancer, almost eight, standing beside me in our living room as I conduct a Zoom class for my undergraduates. (more…)
Keith Yandell (1938-2020)
Joel Kupperman (1936-2020) (updated)
Joel Kupperman, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, has died. (more…)
Mark Steiner (1942-2020)
Mark Steiner, emeritus professor of philosophy at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has died of complications related to COVID-19. (more…)
Gene Long (1935-2020)
Eugene “Gene” Thomas Long III, distinguished professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, has died. (more…)
Jens Halfwassen (1958-2020)
Jens Halfwassen, professor of philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, died this past Saturday. (more…)
David Efird (1974-2020)
David Efird, senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of York, died unexpectedly last Thursday. (more…)
Roger Scruton (1944-2020)
Roger Scruton, a philosopher who for many years taught at Birkbeck College, London, held various other academic appointments, wrote extensively for the public, and who was knighted in 2016 for “services to philosophy, teaching and public education”, has died. (more…)
Daily Nous Holiday Gift Guide 2019
Grading done? If so, you can now turn your full attention to the other major task for this time of year: holiday gift shopping. If not, then you can take a break and engage in productive procrastination through, you guessed it: holiday gift shopping. (more…)
Stephen F. Barker (1927-2019)
Stephen F. Barker, professor emeritus of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, has died. (more…)
Ken Taylor (1954-2019) (w/ updates)
Kenneth Taylor, the Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, has died. (more…)
Jaegwon Kim (1934-2019)
Jaegwon Kim, professor emeritus of philosophy at Brown University, has died. (more…)
James Griffin (1933-2019)
James Griffin, a philosopher who spent much of his career at Oxford University, died last Thursday. (more…)
Michael Detlefsen (1948-2019)
Michael (“Mic”) Detlefsen, the McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has died. (more…)
Rom Harré (1927-2019)
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 20 as part of the psychology faculty at Georgetown University, and a great many visiting appointments around the world, has died.
Miguel León-Portilla (1926-2019)
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. (more…)
Justin Zylstra (1987-2019) / Memorial Prize
Justin Zylstra, a research fellow in philosophy at the University of Vermont who received his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in 2016, died last month of cancer. An effort is underway to establish a memorial prize in metaphysics in his name. (more…)
Myles Burnyeat (1939-2019)
Myles Burnyeat, emeritus fellow at Oxford University’s All Souls College and emeritus professor of philosophy at Cambridge University’s Robinson College, has died. (more…)
André Gallois (1945-2019) (updated)
André Norman Gallois, emeritus professor of philosophy at Syracuse University, died earlier this month. (more…)
John N. Williams (1952-2019)
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 professor of philosophy at Nazarbayev University, has died. (more…)
Barry Stroud (1935-2019) (updated)
Barry Stroud, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, died last week. (more…)
Bryan Magee (1930-2019)
Bryan Magee, one of the most successful popularizers of philosophy in recent times, has died. (more…)
Agnes Heller (1929-2019)
Agnes Heller, a prolific Hungarian philosopher who as a child lost much of her family in the Holocaust and as a professor at the University of Budapest lost her job because she refused to testify that her mentor, György Lukács, committed political “crimes”, has died. (more…)