Henry Ely Kyburg Jr., RIP
John Shoemaker and I were taking an independent study with HEK which was tragically interuppted by a stroke. We were reading with him the MS for his Magnum Opus, a sort of theory of everything, including the epistemic status of belief in God.
When I saw HEK in the hospital the next week he was hard to understand and we worried the cognitive mechanism wasn't working because he kept talking about some "wedding". However, when the nurse came in we found out the cognitive malfunction was ours: he was asking for the *wetting* solution for his eyes.
We continued to speak on the phone occasionally to discuss when we could complete the course and though he sounded tired he was always his own brand of chipper.
I had hoped very much to spend more time on the farm--on my first visit we walked miles across the whole acerage the pace of our legs outstripped onlly by the pace of the conversation--but it was not to be.
It's hard to imagine that I'll never finish that course, and he leaves a gaping hole in my dissertation commitee, my dissertation being largely inspired by the lotery considerations (I don't say "Paradox", Henry never did) which he brought to the fore.
When I saw HEK in the hospital the next week he was hard to understand and we worried the cognitive mechanism wasn't working because he kept talking about some "wedding". However, when the nurse came in we found out the cognitive malfunction was ours: he was asking for the *wetting* solution for his eyes.
We continued to speak on the phone occasionally to discuss when we could complete the course and though he sounded tired he was always his own brand of chipper.
I had hoped very much to spend more time on the farm--on my first visit we walked miles across the whole acerage the pace of our legs outstripped onlly by the pace of the conversation--but it was not to be.
It's hard to imagine that I'll never finish that course, and he leaves a gaping hole in my dissertation commitee, my dissertation being largely inspired by the lotery considerations (I don't say "Paradox", Henry never did) which he brought to the fore.
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