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Appreciations
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Professor Sir A. J. Ayer
Freddy Ayer became Grote Professor in 1947 and was responsible for rebuilding the Department in the immediate post-war era. In 1959 he left to take up the Wykeham Chair of Logic at Oxford, dying in 1989 at the age of 79. Freddy published two volumes of memoirs Part of My Life (1977) and More of My Life (1985). An excellent biography, A.J. Ayer: A Life , written by Ben Rogers, was published in 2000.
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Katherine Backhouse
Katherine Backhouse was Departmental Administrator from the early 1960's to the late 1980's. Click here to read the obituary by Professor Jo Wolff |
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Professor Jerry Cohen
Jerry Cohen left the Department in 1984, having first joined in 1963, and took up the Chichele Chair of Political Thought at Oxford University. His work includes the acclaimed book If You're An Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich?, which also contained some memoirs.
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Professor Sir Stuart Hampshire
Stuart Hampshire was a member of the philosophy department from 1947-1950, returning to become Grote Professor from 1959-1963. In 1963 he took up a Professorship of Philosophy at Princeton. Stuart Hampshire died at the age of 89 on June 13 2004. His obituary can be found through the following links: Guardian I Telegraph I Times
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Dr John Watling
John Watling joined the Department as a Research Assistant in 1949. He was appointed Reader in 1966 and in 1983 he became Head of the Philosophy Department until his retirement in September 1985. John Watling died, aged 80 years, on the 10 July 2004. A tribute to J.L. Watling, written by Peter Cave, can be viewed by clicking here.
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Professor Sir Bernard Williams
Bernard Williams was a Lecturer in the UCL Department of Philosophy from 1959 until 1964, then moving to Bedford College as Professor of Philosophy. In 1967, he left to become Knightsbridge Professor at Cambridge and then served as Provost of King's College Cambridge from 1979 to 1987. In the late 1980's he moved to the US to take up a professorship at the University of California, Berkeley. He later returned and became White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford and a Fellow of Corpus Christi. Bernard Williams died on June 10 2003, aged 73. His obituary can be found through the following links: Guardian I Independent I Telegraph
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Professor Richard Wollheim
Richard Wollheim, who joined the department in 1949, took early retirement as Grote Professor in 1982, and moved to Columbia University in New York. After a spell at University of California at Riverside, he moved to University of California, Berkeley from which he eventually retired in 2003. At this point Richard moved back to London and was scheduled to teach a graduate seminar at UCL in the 2003-04 academic year. Very sadly Richard became seriously ill and died in the winter of 2003. He will be greatly missed. A portion of his memoirs was posthumously published in the London Review of Books. His obituary can be found through the following links: Guardian I Times I UC Berkeley
Speeches from meeting to honour the life and work of Richard Wollheim.
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Photographer: Steve Pyke - Website: www.pyke-eye.com/philosophers.html |
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