Emily Grosholz (1950-2026)

Emily Rolfe Grosholz, professor emerita of philosophy, English, and African American studies at Penn State, has died. Professor Grosholz‘s philosophical work ranged across topics in philosophy of math, philosophy of science, logic, and the history of modern philosophy. She is the author of Starry Reckoning: Reference and Analysis in Mathematics and Cosmology (2016), Representation and Productive Ambiguity in Mathematics and the Sciences (2007), Cartesian Method and the Problem of Reduction (1991), and many other works, which you can learn about here and here. Her academic work was recognized with several honors over the years, including fellowships or grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and elsewhere. Grosholz was also a distinguished poet, publishing seven volumes of poetry, as well as a book that brought together her…