Tag: death

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.

Myles Burnyeat, emeritus fellow at Oxford University’s All Souls College and emeritus professor of philosophy at Cambridge University’s Robinson College, has died.

André Norman Gallois, emeritus professor of philosophy at Syracuse University, died earlier this month.

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…

Barry Stroud, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, died last week.

“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…

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…

Joan Callahan, professor emerita of philosophy at the University of Kentucky, has died.

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

Kwame Gyekye, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Ghana, has died.

James V. Schall, professor emeritus in the Department of Government at Georgetown University and the author of many works in political philosophy, religion, and…

Mary Warnock, a philosopher, crossbench peer of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and policy expert on education and biomedical ethics, died yesterday.

Anita Silvers, professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University (SFSU), has died. 

Pamela Huby, emeritus reader in philosophy at the University of Liverpool, has died. 

Vere Chappell, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, died on January 28th, 2019.