philosopher
TagJeffrey H. Barker (1957-2021)
Jeffrey H. Barker, professor of philosophy and president of Converse University, has died. (more…)
Richard Double (1948-2021)
Richard Double, emeritus professor and former chair of philosophy at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, has died. (more…)
Jorge J. E. Gracia (1942-2021)
Jorge J.E. Gracia, professor emeritus of philosophy and comparative literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo, has died. (more…)
Interview with Peter Hacker
“Philosophical investigation must engage with a significant part of our forms of thought and reasoning, with a large fragment of our conceptual scheme. Otherwise it is of little value to its author, and probably of little value to its readers.” (more…)
Aryeh Kosman (1935-2021)
Aryeh Kosman, professor emeritus of philosophy at Haverford College, has died. (more…)
Joseph Margolis (1924-2021)
Joseph Margolis, professor of philosophy at Temple University, has died. (more…)
Frithjof Bergmann (1930-2021)
Frithjof Bergmann, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, has died. (more…)
Robert Ammerman (1927-2021)
Robert R. Ammerman, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has died. (more…)
Christoph Jamme (1953-2021)
Christoph Jamme, professor of philosophy at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, has died. (more…)
Jacques Bouveresse (1940-2021)
Jacques Bouveresse, emeritus professor of philosophy at the Collège de France, has died. (more…)
Louis Charland (1958-2021)
Louis Charland, professor of philosophy, psychiatry, and health sciences at Western University (Ontario), has died. (more…)
Habermas Declines Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Last week, German philosopher Jürgen Habermas was declared the 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award “Cultural Personality of the Year.” Over the weekend he announced he will not accept the award. (more…)
Katherine Hawley (1971-2021) (updated)
Katherine Hawley, professor of philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, has died. (more…)
Edmund Gettier (1927-2021) (updated)
Edmund L. Gettier III, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has died. (more…)
Kai Nielsen (1926-2021)
Kai Nielsen, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Calgary, has died. (more…)
J. Michael Dunn (1941-2021)
J. (Jon) Michael Dunn, emeritus professor of philosophy, informatics, and computer science at Indiana University, and emeritus founding dean of the university’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, has died. (more…)
To Help Avert University’s “Hunger Games,” A Philosopher Steps Down
Philosopher John Sutton will be voluntarily stepping down from his position as professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at Macquarie University as a way of helping his colleagues avoid a “Hunger Games”-style plan imposed by the university to cut faculty. (more…)
Philosopher Named to White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council
Kyle Whyte, the George Willis Pack Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan, has been named to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. (more…)
Andrew Levine (1944-2021)
Andrew Levine, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park, and political columnist, has died. (more…)
Stephen White (1983-2021)
Stephen White, associate professor of philosophy at Northwestern University, died yesterday. (more…)
Mount St. Mary’s Students Call for Resignation of Philosophy Professor
Students at Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland are calling for the resignation of philosophy professor Joshua Hochschild because of an article he wrote earlier this month for The American Mind, a publication of the Claremont Institute, a conservative advocacy organization. (more…)
Fabrizio Mondadori (1943-2021)
Fabrizio Mondadori, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, died earlier this month. (more…)
Richard Boyd (1942-2021)
Richard Boyd, emeritus professor of philosophy at Cornell University, has died.
University of Dallas Names Philosopher as Next President
The Board of Trustees of the University of Dallas, a Catholic university in Texas, has announced that philosopher Jonathan J. Sanford will be the school’s next president. (more…)
Margaret Morrison (1954-2021)
Margaret Morrison, professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, has died. (more…)
Richard Garner (1936-2020)
Richard Thomas Garner, emeritus professor of philosophy at The Ohio State University, has died. (more…)
David Charles McCarty (1953-2020)
David Charles McCarty, professor of philosophy at Indiana University, has died. (more…)
Hasna Begum (1935-2020)
Hasna Begum, professor emerita of philosophy at the University of Dhaka, has died. (more…)