November 2024 Blog
Michael Ruse (1940-2024) by Michael Reiss With the death of Michael Ruse on 1 November, the field of philosophy of science has lost both an intellectual giant and perhaps its most engaging member. Michael was born near the beginning of the Second World War, on 21 June 1940, in England and brought up in a Quaker environment. His father was a conscientious objector, which wasn’t easy at the time, and his mother died when Michael was 13, which he unsurprisingly found very tough. Michael attended Bootham School in York, a Quaker school, and then went to the University of Bristol to read philosophy and mathematics. There, he had something of an epiphany when first hearing about Descartes’ Meditations in a lecture. I can remember him telling
