2009: Philosophers Who Died

• Here are the philosophers whose passing in 2009 was noted on the blog:  William Alston, Brian Barry, Myles Brand, G.A. Cohen, Marjorie Grene, Leszek Kolakowski, Neil MacCormick, Edward Mahoney, Benson Mates, Julius Moravcsik, Arne Naess, David Pears, John L. Pollock, John E. Smith, Steven Strange, Stephen Toulmin.  Please scroll through the "Philosophy Updates" category for more details and links to memorial notices.

I will try to run such annual summaries of the memorial notices in future years.  For those who are interested, a list of those philosophers whose passing was noted for the prior three years is below the fold.

2008:  Hazel Barnes, Arthur W. Burks, Peter Hare, C.B. Martin, Mary Mothersill, Jay Rosenberg, Mark Sacks, A.D. Woozley, Andrzej Zabludowski.

2007:  J.L. Ackrill, John Arthur, Antonio Cua, Emmanuel Eze, Michael Frede, Henry Kyburg, Jr., Peter Lipton, Richard Rorty, Robert C. Solomon, T.L.S. Sprigge.

2006:  L. Jonathan Cohen, Ellery Eels, D.Z. Phillips, Iris Marion Young.

 http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2009/12/2009-philosophers-who-died.html