The Philosophy Department is sad to announce the death of one of its founding members, Professor Emeritus Sidney Axinn. 

Sidney Axinn, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, died September 25, 2018. He was born in 1923, and served in the U.S. Army from 1943-46. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955. He began teaching at Temple University as an instructor in 1948 and served as department chair from 1952-1967, building the department from one faculty member to a size that supports a graduate program and has an international reputation in aesthetics. He was gradually promoted through the professorial ranks to full professor. His most well-known book is A Moral Military (Temple University Press, 1989). In 1993 he retired from Temple University after 45 years of service and began a regular teaching association with the University of South Florida. He had a philosophically active retirement, publishing Sacrifice and Value: A Kantian Interpretation (Rowman and LIttlefield, 2010). View his full obituary.