Johnny Watling retired from the Philosophy Department at UCL in 1985. He enjoyed a long, happy, and philosophically active retirement until his sad death in 2004.

At Johnny's funeral a group of his former students formed the plan of putting together a collection of Johnny's published and unpublished writings, including chapters from the work on the philosophy of science on which he had been working for many years. This website is the result. We hope you enjoy it.

Jonathan Wolff
Department of Philosophy
University College London
November 30th 2007

Detail from a sketch of Johnny made during one of his lectures

Archive of John Watling's published papers available for download in PDF format

John's book on Bertrand Russell, originally published in 1970

The unpublished MSS John was working on at the time of his death

Some photographs of John

Friends and acquaintances share their memoirs of Johnny

Acknowledgements

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