Very sad news. Nathan notified the Peirce Society EC as well. We'll honor
them both in our upcoming newsletter.
-Aaron
Aaron B. Wilson, PhD
Executive Director of the Charles S. Peirce Society
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 10:01 PM Gary Richmond
wrote:
> List,
>
> Nathan Houser wrote to me this evening with the news of the passing of Dan
> Roberts.
>
> Nathan wrote:
>
> I have some unhappy news that you may want to share with the list,
> especially given the recent and continuing thread on EG. Don Robert’s son
> called me yesterday to inform me that Don died on March 4. He died in his
> home on Vancouver Island. Don’s wife, Beverley Kent, who wrote the book on
> Peirce’s classification of sciences, died eight days later on March 12.
> They had both been in poor and deteriorating health.
>
>
> I wrote in reply:
>
> There is hardly a discussion of EGs which does not reference Roberts' work
> including, as you remarked, the recent one on Peirce-L. As for Kent's book
> on the classification of sciences, while there is surely *no* work that I
> am anywhere close to knowing 'by heart', if recurring study of any book
> were to approach at least a very thorough familiarity for me, along with
> your two volumes of *The Essential Peirce*, Kent's book would most
> certainly qualify. I can't imagine making my recent presentation at APA
> without once again having consulted her ground-breaking monograph.
>
>
> Should I receive additional information, I will of course post it to
> Peirce-L
>
> Best,
>
> Gary
>
>
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