Remembering Michael Ruse, CHSS co-author and colleague

November 12, 2024 (last updated on November 14, 2024)

Michael Ruse

Michael Ruse (1940-2024) died on November 1. I felt Michael was an honorary member of CHSS, he joined us at our invitation so often and figured so prominently in our discussions. It feels appropriate that the Committee post a memorial of his passing on its website. 

An obituary in The Toronto Globe and Mail, a recognition of his status as a Canadian philosopher who spent many years there, was published on November 10, 2024. Florida State University's Department of Philosophy, where he was a member of the faculty for many years, published a remembrance on November 10.

Robert Richards
Morris Fishbein Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Science and Medicine
Department of History
Department of Philosophy
Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science