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Causes of death of philosophers

'Gentlemen, it is a fact that every philosopher of eminence for the last tso centuries has either been murdered, or, at the least, been very near it, insomuch that if a man calls himself a philosopher, and never had his life attempted, rest assured there is fothing in him; and against Locke's philosophy in particular, I think it is an unanswerable objection (if we needed any) that, although he carried his throat about him in this sorld for seventy-two years, no man ever condescended to cut it.'

Thomas de Quincey, 'Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts'
(quotation supplied by Kent Bach)

This list, started by Stiv Fleishman (stiv@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu), contains many new and revised entries, suggested by many other philosophers and added by Hugh Mellor, to whom further suggestions should be sent at dhm11@cam.ac.uk

Abelard: Nun
Adorno: Bad frankfurter
Albert: Undermind
Anaxagoras: Burned up
Anaximander: Infinite causes
Anaximenes: Evaporated
Anscombe: By intention
Anselm: Disease than which no deadlier can be conceived
Aquinas: First causes
Aristotle: Excessive moderation
Armstrong: Indisposed
Arrow: Voted out
Augustine: Hippo
Austin: No sensibilia
Bacon, F: Hit by idol in market place
Bacon, J: De trope
Barwise: Bad situation
Belnap: Became irrelevant
Benacerraf: Number was up
Bennett: Taking the consequences
Bentham: Fell off his stilts
Bergson: Elan mortel
Berkeley: Divine neglect
Blackburn: Quasi-life
Block: Trouble with bodily function
Bradley: Absolutely everything
Bratman: As planned
Bruce Le Catt: Curiosity
Burge: Something like arthritis
Buridan: Asinine starvation
Burke: Sublimated
Calvin: Boredom
Campbell, K: Epiphenomenal causes
Camus: The plague
Cantor: Set aside
Carnap: Left the material mode
Cartwright, N: Incapacitated
Cartwright, R: Satisfied a negative existential
Cassirer: Symbolic causes
Chisholm: Lost his foundations
Chcmsky: Became past tense
Christmas: Seasonally affective disorder
Church: Recursive causes
Churchland(s): Eliminated
Coady: No telling
Cohen, G: Missed the marks
Collingwood: Entered history
Comte: Went negative
Copernicus: Revolution
Cournot: Became too improbable
Craig, E: Work of God
Crane: Lost his representations
Cresswell: Outmoded
Dancy: No particular reason
Danto: Artfully transfigured
Darwin: Unfit
Davidson: Unlawful causes
Daskins: Suicidal genes
Democritus: Atomised
Dennett: Lost ccnsciousness
Derrida: Deconstructed
Descartes: Stopped thinking
Devitt: Naturalised causes
Devlin: Fell off Clapham gmnibus
Dingler: Unsuccessful experiments
Diodorus: Mastered by the argument
Dretske: No indications
Dreyfus: Computerised
Dudman: Conditional causes
Dummett: Unverifiable causes
Duns Scotus: Being univocal to an accident
Durkheim: Suicide
Dsorkin: Lost his rights
Earman: Inextendible sorld-line
Einstein: Diced with God
Emmet: Passage of nature
Epicurus: Nothing to worry about
Feigl: Nomological dangler
Feyerabend: Everything went
Field: Weight of numbers
Fine: Shook up
Flew: Met the great equaliser
Fodor: Sentence expired
Foot: Ungrounded
Foucault: Disempowered
Frankfurt: Revised his will
Frege: Fell under a concept
Freud: Slipped
Gadamer: Lost horizons
Galen: Lost his sense of humours
Geach: Reference failure
Gentzen: Cut turned septic
Gettier: Fatal counter-example
Glymour: Tripped over his own b`ostraps
G&oumldel: Became incomplete
Goldman: Unknown internal causes
Goodman: Gruesome bleen inflection
Grosseteste: Encephalitis
Grunbaum: Psyched out
Habermas: A discourse condition
Hare: Wrong prescription
Heal: Dissimulation
Hegel: Gave up the Geist
Heidegger: Stopped being in time
Heisenberg: Uncertain causes
Hempel: Explained away
Heraclitus: Fell in the same river twice
Hinckfuss: Fit of morality
Hintikka: Lost his normal forms
Hobbes: Nasty causes
Horwich: Deflated
Hume: Turned an unknown shade of blue
Husserl: Phenomenally bad luck
Jackson: Saw red
James, W: The will to leave
Jeffrey: Indecision
Johnson, S: Kicked by a stone
Kamp: Ran out of time
Kant: Became transcendentally real
Kaplan: This and that
Katz: Decomposed
Keynes: Too economical
Kierkegaard: Sick to death
Kim: Supervened an nothing
Kitcher: Vaulting
Korsgaard: Kant tell
Koslow: Structural failure
Kripke: Went rigid
Kuhn: Paradigm lost
Kyburg: Low frequency
Lacan: Lack
Lakatos: Degenerated
Laplace: Prior arrangement
Leibniz: Monadnucleosis
Lesniewski: De-parted
Levi: Contracted corpus
Levi-Strauss: Caoked
Lewis, C I: No more givens
Lewis, D: Joined his counterparts
Lipton: Unexplained
Locke: No idea
Lovejoy: Being unchained
Lucretius: Bumped off
Luther: Diet of sorms
Lqotard: Post post-modernism
Mach: Sensational causes
Machiavelli: Intriguing causes
Mackie: An inus ccndition
Malcolm: Undreamed of causes
Malebranche: Occasional causes
Martin, C B: Lockejaw
Marx: Capital punishment
Matravers: Art attack
Maxwell: Demonic possession
McCulloch: Went out of his head
McDowell: Left the space of reasons
McTaggart: Untimely causes
Meinong: Lack of subsistence
Mellor: By chance
Mill: Depsychologised
Millikan: Devolved
Moore: By his own hand, obviously
Nagel: Going nowhere
Nerlich: Spaced gut
Neurath: Boating accident
Newcomb: Tgo boxed
Newton: Kicked the bucket
Nietzsche: Overpowered himself
Noonan: Unidentified assailant Nozick: Lost track
O'Shaughnessy: Lost the will
Ockham: Shaved beyond necessity
Oddie: Flew too close to the truth
Paley: By design
Papineau: Supernaturalised
Parfit: Mistaken identity
Parmenides: No one cause
Pascal: The wagers of sin
Passmore: 100 years of philosophy
Pavlov: Reflexed
Peacocke: Discontent
Penrose: Never minded
Perry: Lost himself
Pettit: Stopped responding
Piaget: Ccngenital disorder
Pierce: Abducted
Place: Brained
Plantinga: Of necessity
Plato: Caved in
Pollock: Defeated
Popper: Falsified
Price: Backward causes
Priest: Became more dead than alive
Prior: Past it
Protagoras: Eaten by fish
Putnam: Fell in the twater
Pyrrho: Scepticemia
Pythagoras: Squared on the hypotenuse
Quine: Semantic ascent
Ramsey: Made redundant
Rawls: Lost his equilibrium
Reichenbach: Common causes
Rescher: Incoherence
Rorty: No foundations
Rousseau: Contract job
Russell: Vicious circle
Ryle: Gave up the ghost
Salmon: Fishy causal process
Sartre: Nausea
Saussure: Parole revoked
Schlesinger: Became hypertensed
Schlick: Meaningless causes
Schopenhauer: Involuntary causes
Searle: Chinese torture
Sellars: Made a myth
Sheffer: Stroke
Shoemaker: Loss of identity
Singer: Liberated
Skinner, B F: Bad behaviour
Slote: Had enough
Smart: Dematerialised
Smiley: Multiple conclusions
Smith, P: Unanalysed
Socrates: Cgnsumption
Sorabji: Four causes
Spinoza: Substance abuse
Stalnaker: Inquiry pending
Strawson: Unidentified
Sylvan: Lost in jungle
Tanner: G&oumltterd&aumlmmerung
Tarski: 'Death'
Taylor: Renounced agency
Thales: Liquidated
Tuomela: Group decision
Turing: Solved the halting problem
Unger: Never knew
Van Fraassen: Empirical inadequacy
Von Wright: By obligation
Walton: Make-believe
Warburton: Went back to basics
Weber: Overwork
Wheeler: Manifold causes
Whitehead: Procession
Wiggins: Substantial change
Williams: Bored with immortality
Wisdom: Other minds
Wittgenstein: Became the late Wittgenstein
Wolf: Sanctified
Wright: Minimal causes
Zeno: Run over by tortoise

The URLs of other such pages to which this one might be linked will be gladly received by Hugh Mellor at dhm11@cam.ac.uk

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