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    The McMaster Department of Philosophy has now put together the following notice commemorating Barry: Barry Allen: A Philosophical Life Barry…

In Memoriam: A.D. Woozley (1912-2008)

The well-known legal and political philosopher Anthony D. Woozley was an emeritus University Professor at the University of Virginia, and also during his long career held the Chair in Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and taught legal philosophy at Oxford University.  He and Tony Honore taught the first law and philosophy class at Oxford in 1951!  The syllabus for that course is here.

A short memorial notice from a local paper is here.  I will add links to other memorial notices as they appear.

UPDATE:  The distinguished philosopher Cora Diamond, who is also the widow of Professor Woozley, writes with the following interesting bit of information (that I certainly did not know, and perhaps it will be news to others):

Woozley was the last surviving member of the original group of seven philosophers whose informal discussions from 1937-39 were the beginnings of Oxford ordinary language philosophy.  There is an account of these original meetings in Isaiah Berlin’s *Personal Impressions*, the chapter on J.L. Austin.  Austin and Berlin organized the group; besides
Austin, Woozley and Berlin, the members were A.J. Ayer, Stuart Hampshire, Donald Macnabb and Donald MacKinnon.

ANOTHER:  Several more memorial notices have appeared:  here, here, and here.

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