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An obituary for the Iowan politician and school administrator John Hilsinger.

1. The Milllian philosophy -- 2. The analysis of language -- 3. Verbal propositions and apparent interference -- 4. The justification of deduction -- 5. Empiricism in logic and mathematics -- 6. Induction and inductivism -- 7. Induction, perception and consciousness -- 8. The logic of the moral sciences -- 9. Utilitarianism -- 10. Liberty.

John Stanga, our highly esteemed Wichita State University colleague,
died on December 30, 2008, at the age of 69. He is survived by his
three sons—Tomas, Joseph, and John Peter. As colleagues, we
respected him as a unique scholar, teacher, and friend. In an era
often characterized by narrow specialization, he was a true
Renaissance man—not only publishing and teaching in several fields
of our discipline, but also demonstrating a deep mastery of
literature and music, particularly jazz.

John Searle zählt zweifellos zu den weltweit wichtigsten und einflussreichsten Denkern der Gegenwart. Seine grundlegenden und nachhaltigen Beiträge zur Sprachphilosophie, zur Philosophie des Geistes, zur Handlungstheorie und zur Sozialphilosophie werden weit über die Grenzen des Fachs Philosophie hinaus wahrgenommen und gehören vielfach zum Standardrepertoire wissenschaftlicher Forschung und Lehre. Michael Kober und Jan G. Michel bieten in diesem Buch eine übersichtliche sowie gut verständliche, aber auch kritische Einführung in das Gesamtwerk John Searles: Neben einer sehr persönlichen biographischen Notiz und einem kurzen Überblick über seine Leitfragen und Positionen wird jeder der genannten Arbeitsbereiche John Searles in seinen wesentlichen Grundzügen historisch wie systematisch eingeordnet, dargestellt und diskutiert. Indem Kober und Michel dabei nicht chronologisch, sondern inhaltlich systematisch vorgehen, treten außerdem die Zusammenhänge innerhalb des Gesamtwerks John Searles deutlich hervor, so dass dieses schließlich im Lichte der heutigen Philosophie bewertet werden kann

The passing of John Kie-chang Oh is a vivid reminder of how much political science is driven by political responsibility. As a young man in Seoul, John Oh found himself at the center of the great upheaval that was the Korean War. His enrollment in law at the prestigious Seoul National University was cut short, and the prospect of a career in law and politics was put permanently on hold. Even worse, as he recalled, he could not depart from the city, as he was recovering from an appendectomy. The bright optimism of a 20-year-old had been shattered on that September morning in 1950, as he suddenly found himself on the run in his own native land.

The Journal of Modern African Studies deeply regrets to announce
the death of the Book Reviews Editor, Dr John Wiseman, on
5 March 2000.John Wiseman, Senior Lecturer in African Politics at the University of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, died of cancer on 5 March 2000, at the
tragically early age of 54. John was always proud to have been a
product of the Department of Government at Manchester, where he
took both his undergraduate degree and his Ph.D. with Bill Tordoff
and Dennis Austin between 1968 and 1974, completing his Ph.D.
under Bill's supervision on 'The Organisation of Political Conflict in
Botswana'. He then taught for three years at Ahmadu Bello University,
before taking up what proved to be his lifetime post at Newcastle in
1977.Sceptical of theory, and moved by a deep love of Africa, John always
saw African politics as deriving from the needs, aspirations and
struggles of individual Africans, rather than from grand global
narratives. This was an approach that encouraged the empathetic and
fieldwork-based study of individual African states, first in Botswana,
but also in his second African home, The Gambia, while at the time of
his death he was working on Malawi. It also led to an interest in
leadership, expressed in his Political Leaders in Black Africa (1991), and
to an abiding conviction that Africans were every bit as capable as
anyone else in the world, given half a chance, of managing effective
multi-party democracies. This conviction was expressed in his two
major books, Democracy in Black Africa: Survival and Revival (1990), and
The New Struggle for Democracy in Africa (1996), as well as an edited
volume, Democracy and Political Change in Sub-Saharan Africa (1995).
Fittingly, the last publication before his death was 'The Continuing
Case for Demo-Optimism in Africa', Democratization (1999).A lifetime enthusiast, John made an enormous contribution to the
study of Africa, as teacher, colleague and friend. His final-year
undergraduate course on African politics at Newcastle regularly
attracted more than seventy students a year. He was an active
member of ASAUK, especially in organising conference panels and
serving on its Executive Committee, and was Book Review Editor first
of The Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, and from 1997 of
The Journal of Modern African Studies. He will be deeply missed, both
amongst the Africanist community in the United Kingdom, and in those
parts of the continent that he knew and loved. A memorial fund has
been established, and will be donated to projects in those parts of Africa
with which John was most closely associated. Cheques should be made
payable to the 'University of Newcastle', and sent to Mrs Joan
Davison, Department of Politics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU.Pending the appointment of a new Book Reviews Editor, all
reviews and correspondence should be sent to the Editor,
Christopher Clapham, at the University of Lancaster.