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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…)

Kleingeld Wins 2.5 Million Euro Spinoza Prize

Pauline Kleingeld, professor of philosophy at the University of Groningen, has been named as one of the winners of this year’s Spinoza Prize. (more…)

Sen Wins Peace Prize of the German Book Trade

Economist and philosopher Amartya Sen (Harvard) has been selected as the winner of the 2020 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. (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)

Karen Neander, professor of philosophy and linguistics at Duke University, has died. (more…)

Keith Yandell (1938-2020)

Keith Yandell, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, died on April 28th.

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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…)

Peter Singer Talk in New Zealand Cancelled by Venue (Updated)

SkyCity, a hotel and entertainment complex in Auckland, New Zealand, that was scheduled to host a talk this June by Peter Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton, has cancelled the event owing to controversy over the philosopher’s writings. (more…)

David Efird (1974-2020)

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…)

Philosopher Running for U.S. Senate

Richard Winfield, a philosophy professor at the University of Georgia, is running for Senate. (more…)

Stephen F. Barker (1927-2019)

Stephen F. Barker, professor emeritus of philosophy at Johns Hopkins 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…)

Students Disrupt Philosophy Professor’s Course, Call For Resignation

Students at the University of Texas, Austin marched into the classroom of philosophy and biology professor Sahotra Sarkar yesterday, calling him a “predatory professor” and protesting that the university failed to sufficiently hold him accountable for earlier misconduct. (more…)

Learning, Without Illusions, From A Nazi Philosopher

I do take seriously Heidegger’s claim that some of his key philosophical ideas provided the basis for his political commitments. I have tried to understand how he might have conceived of those connections and to trace some of his efforts to develop those lines of thought. I don’t think that this renders his philosophy irredeemable but neither do I think that one can..

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.

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Triumphantly Breaking Free from Academic Philosophy, But Still…

In 2015 I received the National Humanities Medal at a ceremony at the White House. President Obama himself put the medal around my neck, and the rumor was that he made the final choice. In the speech he gave before awarding all the medals, in addition to citing my work on Gödel and Spinoza and Plato, he spoke of me as the philosopher who sometimes chooses to write n..

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…)

Elizabeth Anderson Wins MacArthur Fellowship

Elizabeth Anderson, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, is a recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship. (more…)

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