Jerome A. Shaffer *52

Jerome Shaffer, professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Connecticut, died Nov. 17, 2016. He was 87.

Shaffer graduated from Cornell in 1950 with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. In two years, he earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton in 1952. In 1953, he was a Fulbright scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, and then went into the Army.

In 1955, he started teaching at Swarthmore College. He joined the University of Connecticut faculty in 1967. From 1976 until he retired in 1994, Shaffer was chair of the philosophy department.

Shaffer helped build his department’s reputation as one of serious research, and his manner helped promote its collegial atmosphere. His 1968 book, The Philosophy of Mind, was well known in his field.

After retiring from UConn, Shaffer earned a degree in marital and family therapy and began a therapy practice, which he continued until just before he died.

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