Louis Pojman, Professor of Philosophy, United States Military Academy, died peacefully at home on October 15th. He had liver cancer secondary to cirrhosis and hepatis-C contracted via blood transfusion 18 years ago.
Lou is survived by his wife, Trudy, and his children, Ruth and Paul (an assistant philosopher at Towson University in MD).
The family is planning a Memorial Service for Lou as follows:
2:00 P.M. Friday December 30th
The Unitarian Church of All Souls, 1157 Lexington Ave. at 79th St. in Manhattan
A Reception follows in the Church Hall
Louis Paul Pojman grew up in Cicero, Illinois in the 1940s and 50s. He attended Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary, from which he received a MA and Ph D in Religion. In 1969 he was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Copenhagen and in 1970 a Rockefeller Fellow Hamburg University. He received his D. Phil from Oxford University in 1997 1977. His first position was at the University of Notre Dame, after which he taught at the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Mississippi, where for three years he served as the Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. In 1995 he accepted an offer to become Professor of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has recently been a Visiting Professor at Brigham Young University in Utah and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University.
Louis Pojman is the author or editor of over 30 books and 80 articles. He has won several research and teaching awards, including the Burlington Northern Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarship (1988) and the Outstanding Scholar/Teacher in the Humanities at the University of Mississippi (1994).
Prof. Pojman was embarking on a philosophical dialogue with philosophers in Iran, for which the Iranian philosophical community is grateful. We pray for the repose of his soul, and offer our condolences to his family and friends.
Hajj Muhammad Legenhausen
Qom, Iran
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I Sympathize to you for death of prof.pojman.
I saw mr.pojamn in fall 2004 when he came to iran for a conference of kant after 200 years.
I am sorry about his dead . he help me to solve some of my question about philosophy
God bless him
This news saddens me greatly. I studied philosophy under a professor who studied under Pojman when he taught in Mississippi.
Pojman will be missed.
I teach philosophy at East los Angeles Community College; I have been using Prof. Pojman books in my Ethics class, which is how I got acquainted with his works.I was induced to his writting thanks to his lucidity and approach to Ethics, he was a true ethicist.
He will be missed but his legacy will remain.
re: the date of Pojman's D. Phil from Oxford. He actually got the degree sometime in the 70's, not 1997
Thanks for the correction Richard.