Barry Stroud, UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus, Dies At 84

BERKELEY, CA — Barry Stroud, a Philosophy professor who taught students at the University of California Berkeley for more than a half century, died of brain cancer on Aug. 9 at the age of 84. He is survived by his three daughters, two grandchildren, and extended family.

A campus memorial will be held on Nov. 2. Details will be announced at a later date.

Stroud earned a Ph.D. from Harvard, and then joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1961. He retired in 2016 but continued to teach and write.

"Barry Stroud was a philosopher’s philosopher," said Niko Kolodny, chair of philosophy at UC Berkeley. "He had a profound and far-reaching influence on generations of philosophers — above all, for his view of what philosophy itself was. He helped to revive an understanding of philosophy as a unique and distinctive enterprise."

He received numerous honors and fellowships during his illustrious career. He served as president of the American Philosophical Association from from 1995 to '96.

Following Stroud's death, John Tasioulas, a professor of politics, philosophy and law at England’s King’s College London, tweeted, "All too often philosophers portray themselves as having it all figured out, a glibness of attitude that is starkly at odds with the difficulty and persistence of philosophical problems. One of the greatest opponents of this glibness in our day was Barry Stroud. RIP."

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