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Ioanna Kuçuradi, the Turkish philosopher who in 1998 became the first woman to preside over the world federation of philosophical societies and who argued that human rights follow from what a human being is rather than from any treaty, has died in Istanbul at 89, two days before her ninetieth birthday.
Ioanna Kuçuradi
Robert Alexy, among the most influential legal philosophers of the past half-century, died on Saturday 5 September at the age of 80, four days short of his 81st birthday. He leaves a method behind him — proportionality. What he really leaves is a question. Is everything a state does law?
Anthony Kenny, Cain Todd, David Charles, Tom Rockmore and Gabriele Taylor all died within a single month. Between them they stood for lines of work running from Aristotelian scholarship to German idealism, and from moral psychology to aesthetics.
Don Ihde, the founder of postphenomenology, died in 2024, three days after his ninetieth birthday. The memorial conference held at Stony Brook, and the discussion that followed it, suggest that his theory of mediation has acquired an unexpected currency in the age of artificial intelligence.
John Searle, one of the most argued-over figures in the philosophy of language and mind, died on 17 September 2025 at the age of 93. The thought experiment at the centre of the AI debate is still his.
The philosopher who set the intellectual direction of post-war Germany died in Starnberg on 14 March 2026. President Steinmeier spoke at the memorial service in Frankfurt.
Jürgen Habermas
The author of After Virtue died in 2025 at the age of 96. His thesis that the modern moral vocabulary is a heap of unintelligible fragments is still being argued over.
Alasdair MacIntyre
Sir Anthony Kenny, the English philosopher known for his work on medieval philosophy, Aquinas and Wittgenstein, died on 3 August at the age of 95. A former Master of Balliol College, he was best known for his four-volume history of philosophy.
Anthony Kenny
Charles E. Scott, William L. McBride and Sergio Landucci died this year. Each had taught generations within his own tradition.
