martes, 10 de febrero de 2015

Death of Professor Irving Singer


IRVING SINGER, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF PHILOSOPHY, DIES AT 89

Longtime member of the MIT philosophy community was a dedicated professor, prolific writer.


Irving Singer, a professor emeritus of philosophy at MIT, died Feb. 1 at age 89. Singer was an eminent philosopher whose academic career spanned 65 years — with more than half a century as a professor at MIT. 

Singer was the author of 21 books in the field of humanistic philosophy, focusing on topics such as the philosophy of love, the nature of creativity, moral issues, aesthetics, and philosophy in literature, music, and film. His works have been translated into Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish, among other languages.

The MIT Press recently honored Singer’s career by initiating “The Irving Singer Library,” which includes republication of his books including "The Nature of Love," volumes 1, 2, and 3, and "Meaning in Life," volumes 1, 2, and 3; "Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film"; "Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections on his Creativity"; "Mozart and Beethoven: The Concept of Love in Their Operas"; and "Modes of Creativity: Philosophical Perspectives." Other books by Singer include "George Santayana, Literary Philosopher"; and "Santayana’s Aesthetics: A Critical Analysis." A manuscript in progress at the time of Singer’s death was titled “Creativity in the Brain.”

A three-day conference in 1991 focusing on Singer’s work generated a book titled "The Nature and Pursuit of Love: The Philosophy of Irving Singer," edited by David Goicoechea (Prometheus Books, 1995).


Samuel Jay Keyser, a professor emeritus of linguistics who had an office next door to Singer’s in MIT's Stata Center, remembered his colleague fondly: “We were good office friends, and I am so sorry to hear he has passed on. It is the end of an era.”

Singer retired from MIT in 2013, having served on the MIT faculty in the Department of Philosophy and Linguistics (and its forerunners) since 1958. Until age 85, he was still actively teaching. Singer enjoyed teaching immensely, appreciating it as integral to his process of developing ideas that would inform his writing projects. Several of Singer’s course lectures are viewable on MIT OpenCourseWare, on topics including “Philosophy in Film and Other Media”; “Feeling and Imagination in Art, Science, and Technology”; and “The Nature of Creativity.”

Timothy Madigan, an associate professor of philosophy at St. John Fisher College, recalled Singer’s influence on his work: “Irving was a role model to me, and a true exemplar of a man of wisdom. He will be greatly missed, but his works will continue to live on.”
 

sábado, 10 de enero de 2015

FALLECIMIENTO DEL PROF. MANUEL GARRIDO


OBITUARIO
MANUEL GARRIDO JIMÉNEZ (1925-2015)

LUÍS M. VALDÉS VILLANUEVA

TEOREMA XXXIV/1 (2015): 199-207



 
CLAVES DE RAZÓN PRÁCTICA Nº 239 (MARZO-ABRIL 2015) 
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EIKASÍA Nº 61 ENERO 2015 
 
 
FROM EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY:

Death of Prof. Manuel Garrido Jimenez (1925-2015)
Manuel Garrido Jimenez sadly passed away in Madrid on January 8th, 2015.
Born in Granada in 1925, Manuel Garrido held the Chair of Logic and
Philosophy of Science at the University of Valencia (1962-1979), the
Autonoma University of Madrid (1979-1983) and the Complutense University
of Madrid (1983-1990).  From the 1960s onwards he played a key role in the
introduction of such disciplines as Symbolic Logic, Philosophy of Science
and Philosophy of Language into Spanish universities.  In 1971, he founded
the Philosophy journal Teorema, which brought to Spain the topics,
concepts and methods of Analytic Philosophy, as José Ortega y Gasset had
done with Phenomenology four decades earlier.  Prof. Garrido was a
distinguished specialist in the philosophy of Miguel de Unamuno and José
Ortega, and in 1997 as a result of his ongoing concern for the vitality of
Spanish philosophy,  he promoted the publication of Limbo: An
International Bulletin for the Study of Santayana, and also fostered the
publication in Spain of numerous hitherto forgotten works by the
American-Spanish philosopher George Santayana.


 
Muerte del Prof. Manuel Garrido Jiménez (1925-2015)
Con gran pesar, comunicamos el fallecimiento en Madrid el 08.01.2015 del
ProfesorManuel Garrido Jiménez. El profesor Manuel Garrido (Granada 1925),
fue catedrático de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia de las Universidades
de Valencia (1962-1979), Autónoma de Madrid (1979-1983) y Complutense de
Madrid (1983-1990). A él se debe en gran medida la introducción en España,
a partir de la década de los 60 del pasado siglo, de los estudios de
lógica simbólica, filosofía de la ciencia y filosofía del lenguaje. En
1971 fundó la revista Teorema que, de modo un tanto similar a como Ortega
había hecho cuatro décadas antes con la fenomenología o la filosofía de la
vida, comenzó a implantar en la filosofía española los temas, conceptos y
métodos de la denominada filosofía analítica. El profesor Garrido,
profundo conocedor de la filosofía de Unamuno y Ortega, y siempre
efectivamente preocupado por la buena salud de la filosofía española,
promovió desde 1997 la aparición de Limbo, Boletín Internacional de
estudios sobre Santayana y fomentó la publicación en España de numerosas
obras hasta entonces olvidadas del filósofo anglo-americano-español. 
 
 
 MANUEL GARRIDO, INTRODUCTOR EN ESPAÑA 
DE LA FILOSOFÍA ANALÍTICA
El Pais (23 de febrero) 
 Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca
  
Apreciados colegas: 
 
Lamentamos comunicar la triste noticia del fallecimiento de 
Manuel Garrido Jiménez (Granada-1925) el pasado 8 de enero en Madrid.  
A los muchos méritos de una dilatada e infatigable trayectoria académica y cultural, se 
suma el de haber sido el principal referente de los estudios sobre Santayana en el 
panorama español en las últimas décadas. El profesor Manuel Garrido no sólo dedicó 
reflexiones y escritos a la obra de Santayana, sino que impulsó una labor editorial sin 
precedentes en torno a su pensamiento, que todavía continúa, y que entre todos 
debemos proseguir. 
Descanse en paz

José Beltrán y Daniel Moreno
Secretarios de Limbo. Boletín internacional de estudios sobre Santayana

Dear Colleagues, 
We regret to announce the sad news of the death of
Manuel Garrido Jiménez (Granada, 1925) last January 8th in Madrid.
To the many merits of a long and tireless academic career and broad cultural experience,
we would like to add his having been the main scholarly reference for the studies on 
Santayana in
the Spanish speaking world in recent decades. Not only did Professor Manuel Garrido 
devote
reflections and writings on the work of Santayana, but he was also the impulse behind an 
unprecedented body of seminal contributions on his thought, which we must jointly 
continue and keep alive.
May he rest in peace,

José Beltrán and Daniel Moreno
Secretaries of Limbo. International Journal of Studies on Santayana
 
Muerte del Prof. Manuel Garrido Jiménez (1925-2015)

Con gran pesar, comunicamos el fallecimiento en Madrid el 08.01.2015 del Profesor Manuel Garrido Jiménez. El profesor Manuel Garrido (Granada 1925), fue catedrático de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia de las Universidades de Valencia (1962-1979), Autónoma de Madrid (1979-1983) y Complutense de Madrid (1983-1990). A él se debe en gran medida la introducción en España, a partir de la década de los 60 del pasado siglo, de los estudios de lógica simbólica, filosofía de la ciencia y filosofía del lenguaje. En 1971 fundó la revista Teorema que, de modo un tanto similar a como Ortega había hecho cuatro décadas antes con la fenomenología o la filosofía de la vida, comenzó a implantar en la filosofía española los temas, conceptos y métodos de la denominada filosofía analítica. El profesor Garrido, profundo conocedor de la filosofía de Unamuno y Ortega, y siempre efectivamente preocupado por la buena salud de la filosofía española, promovió desde 1997 la aparición de Limbo, Boletín Internacional de estudios sobre Santayana y fomentó la publicación en España de numerosas obras hasta entonces olvidadas del filósofo anglo-americano-español.

SOCIEDAD ACADÉMICA DE FILOSOFÍA (SAF)