Category: Lives of Philosophers

Tony Lisska, emeritus professor of philosophy at Denison University, has died.

Saul Kripke, one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the 20th Century, has died.

Donald Marquis, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Kansas, has died.

Rosamond Kent Sprague, professor emerita of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, has died.

David H. Sanford, professor emeritus of philosophy at Duke University, has died.

Sydney Shoemaker, professor emeritus of philosophy at Cornell University, has died.

Nel Noddings (professor emerita of education at Stanford University), a philosopher well-known for her development of an “ethics of care,” died on August 25th.

Larry Laudan, an influential philosopher of science and law, died on August 23rd, 2022.

The following is an obituary for Donald W. Crawford (UC Santa Barbara, University of Wisconsin), authored by Elliott Sober, his colleague at Wisconsin, and…

James E. “Ted” McGuire, professor emeritus of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh, has died.

Joseph Raz, one of the most influential legal, political, and moral philosophers over the past 50 years, has died.

Frank Cunningham, professor emeritus of philosophy and political science at the University of Toronto, has died.

Kwasi Wiredu, who was a professor of philosophy at the University of Ghana for over two decades, and later emeritus professor of philosophy at…

Michael Inwood, emeritus fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, has died.

John Morris O’Connor III, professor emeritus of philosophy at William Paterson University, has died.

Linda López McAlister, professor emerita of philosophy and women’s and gender studies at the University of South Florida (USF), died last month.