MOVING TO FRONT FROM APRIL 1–SEE UPDATE

Professor Loar, a leading contributor to philosophy of mind and language over the past forty years, has passed away.  He taught at the Universities of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Southern California, and then for many years at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.  I will link to memorial notices as they appear.

(I am uncertain at this stage about his year of birth, but a colleague believes it was 1940.  Please e-mail me if you know.  According to Balliol College records, he was born 1939.)

UPDATE:  Rutgers has posted a brief memorial notice here, which I will paste below in full:

We are sad to report that our colleague Brian Loar passed away on March 31 after a long illness.  Brian taught at the University of Michigan and USC before coming to Rutgers in 1994.  He retired in 2009.  Brian was a subtle and elegant philosophical thinker who influenced generations of students and colleagues and a great friend to many in the profession.  He made major contributions to the philosophy of mind and metaphysics and is especially known for developing a novel account of phenomenal states and phenomenal concepts.  There will be a memorial that will be announced in this space.