Joseph H. Shieber, professor of philosophy at Lafayette College, has died.

Professor Shieber worked in epistemology, especially the epistemology of testimony and social epistemology, as well as in philosophy of language and the history of philosophy. He is the author of Testimony: A Philosophical Introduction, among other works. You can learn more about his writings here and here.

Professor Shieber joined the Department of Philosophy at Lafayette College in 2003. Prior to that, he taught at Connecticut College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Brown University, where he earned his AM and PhD in philosophy. He studied mathematics and philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin before heading to Brown. He earned his BA from Yale University in literature.

“He was a brilliant and astonishingly productive philosopher,” said Owen McLeod, the head of the philosophy department, according to The Lafayette.

He died on April 7th following a brief illness. He was 53.

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