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TagKenneth Sayre (1928-2022)
Kenneth Sayre, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has died. (more…)
Floridi Wins Italy’s Highest Honor
Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, Director of the Digital Ethics Lab of the Oxford Internet Institute, and Distinguished Research Fellow of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford, as well as Professor of Philosophy and Legal Studies at the University of Bologna, has been awarded the Cavaliere di..
Frederic J. Schick (1929-2022)
Frederic J. Schick, professor emeritus of philosophy at Rutgers University, has died. (more…)
Anthony J. Lisska (1940-2022)
Tony Lisska, emeritus professor of philosophy at Denison University, has died. (more…)
Saul Kripke (1940-2022)
Saul Kripke, one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the 20th Century, has died.
Donald Marquis (1935-2022)
Donald Marquis, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Kansas, has died. (more…)
Rosamond K. Sprague (1922-2022)
Rosamond Kent Sprague, professor emerita of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, has died. (more…)
David H. Sanford (1937-2022)
David H. Sanford, professor emeritus of philosophy at Duke University, has died. (more…)
Sydney Shoemaker (1931-2022)
Sydney Shoemaker, professor emeritus of philosophy at Cornell University, has died. (more…)
Nel Noddings (1929-2022)
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. (more…)
Larry Laudan (1941-2022)
Larry Laudan, an influential philosopher of science and law, died on August 23rd, 2022. (more…)
Paul Humphreys (1950-2022)
Paul Humphreys, Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia, has died. (more…)
Donald W. Crawford (1938-2022)
The following is an obituary for Donald W. Crawford (UC Santa Barbara, University of Wisconsin), authored by Elliott Sober, his colleague at Wisconsin, and Yuriko Saito, professor emerita at Rhode Island School of Design, who was one of his students. (more…)
J.E. “Ted” McGuire (1931-2022)
James E. “Ted” McGuire, professor emeritus of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh, has died. (more…)
Kelly & Rembert Win Pulitzer Prize
Erin Kelly, professor of philosophy at Tufts University, together with the late Winfred Rembert, have won the the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for biography/autobiography for their book, Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South. (more…)
Philosopher Wins State-Wide Teaching Award in Texas
Manuela Alejandra Gomez, professor of philosophy at El Paso Community College (EPCC), was named a 2022 Piper Professor, an honor bestowed by the government of Texas to recognize excellence in teaching. (more…)
Joseph Raz (1939-2022)
Joseph Raz, one of the most influential legal, political, and moral philosophers over the past 50 years, has died. (more…)
Shawnee State Settles with Philosophy Professor Who Refused To Use Student’s Preferred Pronouns
After Shawnee State University philosophy professor Nicholas Meriwether refused, in 2018, to address a student by their preferred pronouns (see previous post), the university placed a warning in his file saying he violated the school’s nondiscrimination policy. (more…)
William E. Mann (1940-2022)
William E. Mann, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Vermont, died on March 8th, 2022. (more…)
Stefan Heßbrüggen-Walter Resigns from Russia’s Higher School of Economics
Stefan Heßbrüggen-Walter has resigned from his position as associate professor of philosophy with tenure at National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow, with a letter publicly excoriating the university administration and others for their behavior in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (more…)
Frank Cunningham (1940-2022)
Frank Cunningham, professor emeritus of philosophy and political science at the University of Toronto, has died. (more…)
Kah Kyung Cho (1927-2022)
Kah Kyung Cho, emeritus professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, has died. (more…)
Kwasi Wiredu (1931-2022)
Kwasi Wiredu, who was a professor of philosophy at the University of Ghana for over two decades, and later emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida, has died. (more…)
Michael Inwood (1944-2021) (updated)
Michael Inwood, emeritus fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, has died. (more…)
John O’Connor (1937-2021)
John Morris O’Connor III, professor emeritus of philosophy at William Paterson University, has died. (more…)
What a Cancellation Looks Like (guest post)
“Most readers will find what happened to this professor horrifying and wrong…” (more…)
Linda López McAlister (1939-2021)
Linda López McAlister, professor emerita of philosophy and women’s and gender studies at the University of South Florida (USF), died last month. (more…)
Bernard Rollin (1943-2021)
Bernard “Bernie” Elliot Rollin, professor emeritus of philosophy, animal sciences, and biomedical sciences at Colorado State University, has died. (more…)