Mark Steiner, emeritus professor of philosophy at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has died of complications related to COVID-19. (more…)

Eugene “Gene” Thomas Long III, distinguished professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, has died. (more…)

Jens Halfwassen, professor of philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, died this past Saturday. (more…)

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

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…)

Stephen F. Barker, professor emeritus of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, has died.  (more…)

Jaegwon Kim, professor emeritus of philosophy at Brown University, has died. (more…)

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

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

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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…)

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 Norman Gallois, emeritus professor of philosophy at Syracuse University, died earlier this month. (more…)

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, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, died last week. (more…)

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…)

“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 Law and Philosophy and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University, who died last week at age 54. (more…)

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 Latin American philosophers of the 20th Century, died earlier this week.

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Joan Callahan, professor emerita of philosophy at the University of Kentucky, has died. (more…)

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

Kwame Gyekye, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Ghana, has died. (more…)