Bruce Waller, professor emeritus of philosophy at Youngstown State College, has died.
Professor Waller was identified for his work on free will and ethical accountability, authoring books akin to Freedom With out Accountability, Towards Ethical Accountability, The Cussed System of Ethical Accountability, The Injustice of Punishment, and Free Will, Ethical Accountability, and the Need to Be a God, amongst others. You possibly can be taught extra about his writings here and here.
Professor Waller taught at Youngstown State from 1990 till his retirement in 2019. He beforehand taught at Elon Faculty (now Elon College). He earned his PhD on the College of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1979.
Thinker Gregg Caruso writes:
Bruce Waller was an progressive and provoking thinker who virtually singlehandedly revitalized ethical accountability skepticism within the Nineteen Eighties and 90s, making it a critical and engaging place for a complete new era of philosophers. Not solely did he current highly effective arguments in opposition to the form of ethical accountability wanted to justify our desert-based attitudes, judgements, and coverings (akin to resentment, indignation, ethical anger, blame, and retributive punishment), he additionally developed a form of error principle to diagnose our cussed attachment to the ethical accountability system, which he argued is finally a dangerous and dehumanizing set of practices and beliefs. Maybe greater than some other thinker, Waller confirmed that by abandoning perception in ethical accountability and the notion of simply deserts, we are able to look extra clearly into the trigger and extra deeply into the programs that form people and their conduct, and this may enable us to undertake extra humane and efficient practices and insurance policies. Waller’s work will proceed to encourage and problem philosophers for generations to come back.
He died on February eighth, 2023. There may be an obituary here.
UPDATE: This publish was up to date with data offered by Robyn Waller, Bruce Waller’s daughter-in-law.
