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Ernan McMullin, O’Hara Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, Honorary Fellow of St Edmund’s College (1924-2011)
The College is very sad to announce the death of Ernan McMullin on 8th February 2011 aged 87 in Letterkenny in his native County Donegal, Ireland. He was an internationally respected philosopher of science who has written and lectured extensively on subjects ranging from the relationship between cosmology and theology, to the role of values in understanding science, to the impact of Darwinism on Western religious thought. He was an expert on the life of Galileo. Professor McMullin was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the International Academy of the History of Science. Among other honours, he won the Aquinas Medal of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Centennial Medal of John Carroll University, the Founder’s Medal of the Metaphysical Society of America and two Notre Dame faculty awards. Ernan McMullin was an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund’s College and thought a great deal of the College. He was also a great friend and mentor of The Faraday Institute and will be much missed.
Paul Luzio
Master