IRVING SOSENSKY ’42

IRVING SOSENSKY, a professor of philosophy, died Feb. 25, 2003. He was 83. A member of the John Wesley Club, he received his degree with distinction in philosophy. He received a master’s degree from Yale University and a doctorate from Columbia University. He taught philosophy at the University of Missouri and then at Purdue University for more than 30 years and specialized in early modern philosophy and the philosophy of science and of social science. Since 1988, he had lived in Paris and was active in the Democratic Party Abroad–France. Predeceased by his wife, a daughter survives.