Over at “Crooked Timber”:http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/11/ellery-eells-is-dead/, Harry Brighouse reports the sad news that his colleague “Ellery Eells”:http://philosophy.wisc.edu/eells/ has died. As Harry says, Eells’ combination of technical ability and philosophical insight was rare and valuable. I never met him, but both Harry and “Larry Shapiro”:http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2006/08/in_memoriam_ell.html report he was also a wonderful person and colleague as well.

*UPDATE*: In comments Branden Fitelson, who was a student of Eells, has some memories of what Eells was like as a teacher and supervisor.