Gerald J. Massey *64

Jerry died in Pittsburgh Sept. 13, 2024.

He spent his youth in Mendota and Ottawa, Ill. He graduated from Notre Dame in 1957 and served three years as a lieutenant in the Marines.

In 1964, Jerry earned a Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton under the direction of Carl Hempel and Alonzo Church 1924 *1927. He taught at Michigan State from 1963 to 1969. He served as managing editor of Philosophy of Science, and as secretary-treasurer of the Philosophy of Science Association. He spent 1969-70 as an Andrew Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, where he became chair of the Department of Philosophy. From 1988 to 1997, he served as director of Pitt’s Center for Philosophy of Science.

Jerry initiated cooperation between Pitt and the German University of Konstanz. The universities exchanged copies of each other’s archives and established the Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science. To honor Jerry’s contributions to German philosophy and the academic cooperation between Germany and America, Jerry received the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Jerry is survived by his children, Charles, Mary, Stephane, and Roberta; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

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