Obituary articles
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Peter Oosterhuis obituary
British golfer who was No 1 in Europe in the 1970s and compiled one of the finest records in the Ryder CupIn the gap during the 1970s between the pre-eminence of Tony Jacklin and the emergence of Nick Faldo, Peter Oosterhuis, who has died aged 75, was Britain’s best and most successful golfer. He was No 1 in Europe for four consecutive years and compiled one of the finest records in the Ryder Cup, winning an unusually high percentage of his matches during an era when the US exercised total...
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Daniel Dennett obituary
Controversial US philosopher who sought to understand and explain the science of the mindDaniel Dennett, who has died aged 82, was a controversial philosopher whose writing on consciousness, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and evolutionary psychology helped shift Anglo-American philosophy from its focus on language and concepts towards a coalition with science.His naturalistic account of consciousness, purged as far as possible of first-person agency and qualitative experience, has...
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Obituary: Lucile Boedy, 1920-2024
Music and leading a life of faith were the foundations of a life well lived Lucile Hamrin Boedy, of South Burlington, Vt., died of old age from a life well lived. She is the last remaining Smith of Wayne, Ill., whose ancestors left Corinth, Vt., in 1837 to travel the Erie Canal and begin a pioneer life on the new frontier. Lucile was born April 2, 1920, in Waterloo, Iowa, to Richard and Helen (Smith) Hamrin, during the final year of Woodrow Wilson’s...