In Memoriam: Pamela Sue Anderson (1955 – 2017)

The Faculty is deeply saddened to report the death of Professor Pamela Sue Anderson, who died on 12 March 2017 at the age of 61, after losing her two-year battle with cancer.

Pamela had been a Fellow of Regent’s Park College since 2001, and Professor of Modern European Philosophy of Religion since 2014.  She was previously Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sunderland, and in 2009 she received an honorary degree from the University of Lund in Sweden.

Her work included: Ricoeur and Kant: Philosophy of the Will (1993); A Feminist Philosophy of Religion: The Rationality and Myths of Religious Belief (1997); Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings, which she co-edited with Beverley Clack (2004); and Revisioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion: Reason, Love and Epistemic Locatedness (2012).  At the time of her death she was working on a book entitled In Dialogue With Michèle Le Doeuff.