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Dear Freye and David’s friends, We don’t know each other. I was an old friend of David’s, since we were…
Professor David Hoy guided me through my education at Santa Cruz from my very first quarter, where I took 20th-century…
I was fortunate enough to be David Hoy’s student in two lecture courses and one seminar at UCSC in the…
I don’t know a finer human being. It was a privilege to work with and learn from him, both personally…
I met David in 1981 when I was a grad student at Princeton. Although no longer on the faculty he…
David was my first department chair, and very generously and shrewdly mentored me in the ways of the profession. I…
david was department chair for my years at UC santa cruz from 1995 to 1998. later, in 2002, we organized…
Professor Føllesdal, who was emeritus at both Stanford University (where he spent most of his career) and the University of Oslo (in his native Norway), was best-known for his work in philosophy of language, logic, and on phenomenology, especially Husserl. Comments are open for remembrances from those who knew Professor Føllesdal or from those who would like to comment on the significance of his work.
(I learned of his death from Martin Kusch on Facebook.)
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