British Society of Aesthetics

Society President, Professor Emeritus Richard Wollheim dies.

Professor Emeritus Richard Wollheim was the Society's President from 1992 until his death this year.
Graham McFee, current Vice-President and former doctoral student of Wollheim's, offers some personal recollections below. The Society is also collecting links to obituaries (below). Please notify the Secretary (kathleen@british-aesthetics.org) of any omissions.

Obituaries for Richard Wollheim

From the Philosophy Department web site, University of California, Berkeley.
With great sadness we report the passing of our beloved friend and colleague, Richard Wollheim. He died of heart failure on November 4 at his home in London.
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Philosophy Now

Richard Wollheim, a philosopher whose aesthetic insights are considered among the more profound of the postwar era, has died at his home in London at the age of 80.