Academic Footnotes

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Hilary Putnam, philosopher, computer scientist and mathematician dead at 89:

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martha-c-nussbaum/hilary-putnam-1926-2016_b_9457774.html

 

Few obits so far, which is surprising because a couple of his thought experiments are very well-known, for example the "brain-in-a-vat" scenario or his idea about how to get the piece of the cake you really want.

[Magere Hein 1,400]

Hilary Putnam, philosopher, computer scientist and mathematician dead at 89:

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martha-c-nussbaum/hilary-putnam-1926-2016_b_9457774.html

 

Few obits so far, which is surprising because a couple of his thought experiments are very well-known, for example the "brain-in-a-vat" scenario or his idea about how to get the piece of the cake you really want.

 

I know of Putnam's existence, I even read a few snippets of his work,. but I have the feeling I should have known more of it. Well, I don't, so I quess celebrity and philosopher don't go well together.

[Guest Droosy]

 

Hilary Putnam, philosopher, computer scientist and mathematician dead at 89:

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martha-c-nussbaum/hilary-putnam-1926-2016_b_9457774.html

 

Few obits so far, which is surprising because a couple of his thought experiments are very well-known, for example the "brain-in-a-vat" scenario or his idea about how to get the piece of the cake you really want.

 

I know of Putnam's existence, I even read a few snippets of his work,. but I have the feeling I should have known more of it. Well, I don't, so I quess celebrity and philosopher don't go well together.

 

 

well, Hilary Putnam was the Kim Kardashian of analytic philosophy - a rather well-known person in the various fields of philosophy (philosophy of mind, science, mathematics or language). He knew a lot about everything, yet he was not a super-authority on anything. He shifted his positions on various topics way too much.

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Hilary Putnam, philosopher, computer scientist and mathematician dead at 89:

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martha-c-nussbaum/hilary-putnam-1926-2016_b_9457774.html

 

Few obits so far, which is surprising because a couple of his thought experiments are very well-known, for example the "brain-in-a-vat" scenario or his idea about how to get the piece of the cake you really want.

I know of Putnam's existence, I even read a few snippets of his work,. but I have the feeling I should have known more of it. Well, I don't, so I quess celebrity and philosopher don't go well together.

 

well, Hilary Putnam was the Kim Kardashian of analytic philosophy - a rather well-known person in the various fields of philosophy (philosophy of mind, science, mathematics or language). He knew a lot about everything, yet he was not a super-authority on anything. He shifted his positions on various topics way too much.

 

Now there's a thought I hadn't spent any time whatsoever considering.

[Toast 16,152]

 

 

Hilary Putnam, philosopher, computer scientist and mathematician dead at 89:

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martha-c-nussbaum/hilary-putnam-1926-2016_b_9457774.html

 

Few obits so far, which is surprising because a couple of his thought experiments are very well-known, for example the "brain-in-a-vat" scenario or his idea about how to get the piece of the cake you really want.

 

I know of Putnam's existence, I even read a few snippets of his work,. but I have the feeling I should have known more of it. Well, I don't, so I quess celebrity and philosopher don't go well together.

 

 

well, Hilary Putnam was the Kim Kardashian of analytic philosophy - a rather well-known person in the various fields of philosophy (philosophy of mind, science, mathematics or language). He knew a lot about everything, yet he was not a super-authority on anything. He shifted his positions on various topics way too much.

 

 

Did he have a ginormous arse then?

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Ben Bagdikian, a respected journalist and former dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, died Friday at his home in Berkeley. He was 96.

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[Sir Creep 7,070]

Geoffrey H. Hartman, a literary critic whose work took in the Romantic poets, Judaic sacred texts, Holocaust studies, deconstruction and the workings of memory, died on March 14 at his home in Hamden, Conn. He was 86. His death was announced by Yale University, where he was the Sterling professor emeritus of English and comparative literature. Hartman was considered one of the world’s foremost scholars of literature.
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[Sir Creep 7,070]

Former Arizona State University President J. Russell Nelson, whose tenure included the opening of the ASU West campus and the launching of the first major fundraising campaign, has died.

The 86-year-old died Wednesday at his Tempe home from complications of Alzheimer's disease, according to a statement by ASU.

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[Guest Guest]

RIP: Dr Roberto Coronel — eminent Research Professor of tropical and sub-tropical fruits, College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines.

On 24 March 2016 a humanitarian, and friend, passed away. My sincere condolences go out to the family and friends of Dr Coronel. For those of us who’s lives had in some way been touched by this pleasant-natured man, further to his more recognized legacies, it should be known that Dr Coronel was considered by his peers of the 80’s to have been the world’s authority on the propagation ofArtocarpus altilis (Breadfruit). Dr Coronel, as a pomologist, and as an author, understood how breadfruit underpinned hopes for food security in the Philippines and Oceana. No man of his times had a better understanding of breadfruit and applied his knowledge of the plant more successfully towards its commercial production.

Early in the 80’s following a visit by Dr Coronel to a tropical fruit research facility in Cairns Australia, and subsequent visits I made to Dr Coronel at the College of Agriculture and to his home in the Philippines, more than any other person, it was Dr Coronel who convinced me that William Bligh (of Mutiny on the Bounty fame) that Bligh’s accounts of collecting breadfruit plants in Tahiti had to be erroneous. Our serendipitous encounter had, eventually, resulted in the publishing of my first book on the subject in 2009. After many years of research, as Dr Coronel had suspected, it was proved that many of Bligh’s accounts about breadfruit had indeed been fabricated.

I acknowledge an enormous debt of gratitude to Dr Coronel for generously giving his time, studying my draft chapters, and writing technical commentaries on the subject matter. Known for his progressive methods of accelerating layering of seedless breadfruits, without his enquiring mind, especially his curiosity about the method Bligh used to obtain his plants, it’s no mere cliché to assert, my books might never have been written.

Today, following in Dr Coronels pioneering footsteps, thankfully there are other eminent authorities and worthy institutions that continue to promote the conservation and use of breadfruit.

To Dr Roberto Coronel (1939/2016) I acknowledge your wonderful humanitarian contributions.

Rest in Peace

(Karl E. A. Lorbach: 27 March 2016)

 

 

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Former Michigan State University President Gordon Guyer has died. He was 89.

The East Lansing university said Guyer died Wednesday. He was Michigan State's 18th president, serving from 1992-93.

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http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160331/NEWS01/160339960/former-michigan-state-president-gordon-guyer-dies

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Former Michigan State University President Gordon Guyer has died. He was 89.

The East Lansing university said Guyer died Wednesday. He was Michigan State's 18th president, serving from 1992-93.

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http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160331/NEWS01/160339960/former-michigan-state-president-gordon-guyer-dies

And dying on the same day....

 

Steven B. Sample, who was president of the State University of New York at Buffalo for nine years and then led the University of Southern California for 19 years, died on Tuesday. He was 75.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/education/steven-b-sample-former-university-president-dies-at-75.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront&referer=http://www.nytimes.com/section/obituaries

[gcreptile 10,979]

Eminent german-american historian Fritz Stern dead at 90:

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/fritz-stern-prominent-history-academic-dead-age-90-39196533

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Professor Emeritus Klaus Biemann passed away peacefully on June 2 after a short illness. He was 89.

He is regarded as the father of organic mass spectrometry.

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http://news.mit.edu/2016/klaus-biemann-chemistry-professor-emeritus-dies-0609

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Henry Krystal, the psychologist who coined the term "survivor guilt" has died at 90, already back in October:

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11977806/Henry-Krystal-psychiatrist-obituary.html

 

So many good people die, yet I continue living...

That's what we were all thinking.

 

 

 

His family all feel like shit now

[maryportfuncity 10,657]

Professor Emeritus Klaus Biemann passed away peacefully on June 2 after a short illness. He was 89.

He is regarded as the father of organic mass spectrometry.

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http://news.mit.edu/2016/klaus-biemann-chemistry-professor-emeritus-dies-0609

 

 

So, what exactly did he have to fuck to father that?

[Youwanticewiththat 611]

 

Professor Emeritus Klaus Biemann passed away peacefully on June 2 after a short illness. He was 89.

He is regarded as the father of organic mass spectrometry.

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http://news.mit.edu/2016/klaus-biemann-chemistry-professor-emeritus-dies-0609

 

 

So, what exactly did he have to fuck to father that?

 

Dare I suggest Jabba the Hut?

[gcreptile 10,979]

Economist Karl Case, who had brushed the mainstream with his Case-Shiller index of housing prices, is dead and was either 69 or 70 years old:

 

http://finance.yahoo.com/video/economist-karl-case-dies-110600193.html

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Berkeley materials science and engineering professor emeritus remembered for his unique life philosophies and his love for the Berkeley community, died Friday night. He was 74.

Known for his contributions to research in mining and mineral process engineering, particularly in iron ore processing, Sastry received his doctorate from UC Berkeley in 1970 before moving to Minnesota to further his research in mining. He became a campus professor in 1975 and retired in 2000.

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http://www.dailycal.org/2016/07/19/former-uc-berkeley-engineering-professor-dies-at-74/

[YoungWillz 21,062]

Report that Scots born academic and former hostage Thomas Sutherland has died aged 85. http://denvercenter.org/blog-posts/news-center/2016/07/23/former-hostage-thomas-sutherland-is-freed-a-second-time

 

He was freed alongside Terry Waite.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sutherland_(academic)

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Katherine Tsanoff Brown, former dean of undergraduates and a professor emerita of art history, died Aug. 22. She was 97. Katherine Tsanoff Brown Brown, the daughter of Rice’s first philosophy professor, Radoslav Tsanoff, was raised on campus, entered the Rice Institute as a 15-year-old undergraduate and received her degree in 1938.

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[Spade_Cooley 9,538]

Cliff Davies, Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, dead at 80. Expert on 16th century history, including the fact that Henry VII was massively ashamed of his Welsh roots.

[gcreptile 10,979]

Prominent Jewish conservative scholar, and apparently "the most prolific author in history", Jacob Neusner, dead at 84:

 

http://religionnews.com/2016/10/10/jacob-neusner/

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Prominent Jewish conservative scholar, and apparently "the most prolific author in history", Jacob Neusner, dead at 84:

 

http://religionnews.com/2016/10/10/jacob-neusner/

 

950 books??

 

Reminds me of the chap who wrote the Billy Bunter books, Frank Richards. He once held the Guinness record for most words ever written. To that end, Norris (or Ross, the one who didn't get shot by the IRA) McWhirter once noted that Richards "enjoyed the benefits of not being married"!

[Sir Creep 7,070]

 

Prominent Jewish conservative scholar, and apparently "the most prolific author in history", Jacob Neusner, dead at 84:

 

http://religionnews.com/2016/10/10/jacob-neusner/

 

950 books??

Seems like a great waste of fahkin time.

He prolly dropped over at a book signing.

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[Sir Creep 7,070]

University of Miami law professor M. Minnette Massey shattered the glass ceiling so many years ago — 1958 — that the familiar term was decades away from entering the popular vernacular. In that year, Massey was one of 14 women nationwide to crack the male-dominated world of law school professors. She joined the University of Miami faculty in 1958 after graduating from its law school in 1951 and earning her master’s in law from New York University. She would go on to become Dean of the law school.

Massey, born May 5, 1927, in Stratford, Connecticut, won numerous awards, including the Center for Ethics and Public Service Lawyers in Leadership Award and the Law Alumni Association’s Thomas Davison III Memorial Service Award in 2004. She retired from UM in 2015 after 57 years.

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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article115260328.html