Edward Nicholls Lee *64

Edward died July 21,2025, at his home in Solana Beach, Calif. He was 90.

He was born April 1, 1935, in New York City. He received his B.A. from Cornell in 1956, then served as a lieutenant in the Army for two years. Edward earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton in 1964. With a scholarly interest in ancient Greek philosophy, he wrote his dissertation on “The Concept of the ‘mage’ in Plato’s Metaphysics.”

Edward taught at Johns Hopkins and the University of Texas, Austin, before moving in 1970 to the philosophy department at the University of California, San Diego, where he was a professor of ancient Greek philosophy, specializing in Plato and the pre-Socratics, until his retirement in 1994.

Edward is survived by his wife, Kathryn Ann Shevelow; daughters Sandra and Susanna; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

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