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Philosopher Marco Dees Dies in Climbing Accident

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

H. Tristram Engelhardt (1941-2018)

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, age 77. (more…)

Stanley Cavell (1926-2018) (updated)

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

Remembrances of Parfit

Twenty videos of talks given at the June 3rd, 2017 celebration of the life of philosopher Derek Parfit (who died earlier that year), have been posted online. (more…)

“The accomplishment I am most proud of is my relationship with the end of my life”

In June, 2016, Adam Hayden, then a philosophy student in his lower 30s, and also a husband and a father of three young boys, was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of cancer that attacks the brain or spinal cord. (more…)

Bob Hale (1945 – 2017)

Bob Hale, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Sheffield, died last week. He was 72 years old. (more…)

Eileen O’Neill, 1953-2017 (obituary by Christia Mercer)

The following is an obituary for philosopher Eileen O’Neill, who died last week, by Christia Mercer, the Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and Director of the new Center for New Narratives of Philosophy, which is itself motivated by Eileen O’Neill’s work. (more…)

A Remembrance of Jerry Fodor, 1935-2017 (guest post by Georges Rey)

The following is an obituary for philosopher Jerry Fodor, who died earlier this week, by Georges Rey, professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland. (more…)

Jerry Fodor (1935-2017) (updated)

Jerry Fodor, one of the most influential philosophers of mind of the 20th Century, has died. (more…)

Victoria Davion (1960-2017)

Victoria Davion, professor of philosophy at the University of Georgia, has died. She was 57. (more…)

“Credible Threats Of Personal Violence” Lead To Retraction of Colonialism Paper (updated)

The controversy over the decision of Third World Quarterly to publish “The Case for Colonialism” by Bruce Gilley (discussed here) has escalated. Now, “credible threats of personal violence” against the editor of the journal, Shahid Qadir, have led the journal’s publisher, Taylor & Francis, to withdraw the article. (more…)

Glen Newey (1961-2017)

Glen Newey, professor of political philosophy and ethics at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Leiden, died on September 30th, 2017. (more…)

Ken Chung (1978 – 2017)

Ken Chung, a philosopher who taught at Western University, Ryerson University, the University of Guelph-Humber, and at Trent University, died this past Wednesday. He was 39 years old. (more…)

Erik Banks (1970-2017)

Erik Banks, Professor of Philosophy at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, died unexpectedly on August 18th. He was 47. (more…)

Timothy Hall (1969-2017)

Timothy Hall, associate professor of philosophy at Oberlin College, unexpectedly died this past Sunday at the age of 48. (more…)

Delia Graff Fara (1969-2017) (updated)

Delia Graff Fara, professor of philosophy at Princeton University, died this past Tuesday. She was 48 years old. (more…)

Robert S. Cohen (1924-2017)

Robert S. Cohen, professor emeritus of philosophy and physics at Boston University, died yesterday, June 19th, 2017. Professor Cohen was known mainly for his work in the philosophy and history of science. (more…)

Peter Kivy (1934-2017) (updated with statement from Rutgers)

Peter Kivy, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, has died. A prolific philosopher of art, literature, and especially music, Professor Kivy had over 20 books to his name. (more…)

Hubert Dreyfus (1929-2017)

Hubert Dreyfus, a renowned philosopher and a professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley for almost 50 years, died early Saturday morning. He was 87 years old.

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Josh Parsons (1973-2017)

Josh Parsons, our beloved friend, mentor, and role-model, died on April 11, 2017. He was 44. Our thoughts are with his family, and most especially with his wife, Hannah Burgess. (more…)

David Braine (1940-2017)

David Braine, a philosopher at the University of Aberdeen, died this past February. Professor Braine worked in a broad range of philosophical fields, including philosophy of religion, metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and ethics. (more…)

Richard Tieszen (1951-2017)

Richard Tieszen, professor of philosophy at San José State University, died earlier this week at age 65. Professor Tieszen worked in the philosophy of math, logic, and phenomenology. (more…)

Marilyn McCord Adams (1943-2017)

Marilyn McCord Adams, a philosopher who held appointments at Rutgers University, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Yale University, UCLA, and Oxford (as the first and only woman to be the Regius Professor of Divinity), has died. (more…)

Susanne Foster (1962-2017)

Susanne E. Foster, associate professor of philosophy and associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences at Marquette University, died on Saturday, March 18 at the age of 55. Prior to her appointment at Marquette, Professor Foster taught at the University of Notre Dame, where she received her PhD (under the direction of Alasdair McIntyre). Sh..

Pamela Sue Anderson (1955-2017)

Pamela Sue Anderson, Professor of Modern European Philosophy of Religion at Oxford University, died this past Sunday, from cancer. She was 61. (more…)