Hugh and I met in 1964, my final year of graduate study, and became fast friends. Over the years, he occasionally visited us in Virginia …
Memorial: Elliott Sober
I got to know Hugh in 1970-72 when I was a research student in working with Mary Hesse. I was not expecting a member of …
Memorial: Ben Colburn
21 June 2020 Hugh, My dear friend. How sad I am that you have died. My diary for this weekend has ‘Hugh’ written in it: …
Memorial: Justin Weinberg on dailynous.com
David Hugh Mellor (known as D.H. or Hugh Mellor), professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Cambridge, has died. Professor Mellor was well-known for his …
Memorial: William Grey
Hugh supervised my PhD at Cambridge in the early 1970s. In my thesis (on the metaphysics of time) I defended an anti-realist conception of the …
Memorial: Michael Ruse
Hugh was one of the most important influences in my life. Back in 1968, still working on my PhD, I submitted a short 10page paper …
Memorial: Alex Grzankowski
I arrived at Cambridge in the summer of 2015. It was in many ways an intimidating and foreign feeling place for someone with no previous …
Obituary: Stewart Candlish for AAH
This Obituary appears by kind permission of The Australian Academy of the Humanities. DAVID HUGH MELLOR 1938 – 2020 Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand …
Obituary: Pascal Engel for Le Monde [French]
La mort du philosophe britannique Hugh Mellor Il était l’un des derniers représentants de la grande tradition de philosophie de l’université de Cambridge, où il …
Tim Crane on Hugh’s 70th Birthday
(FROM THE CAMBRIDGE FACULTY NEWSLETTER 2009) Emeritus Professor D.H. (Hugh) Mellor, who in 2008 celebrated his 70th birthday, originally studied chemical engineering at Pembroke College. …
Podcast: Oral History
This is a podcast titled “Oral History” by Mellor. The late Hugh Mellor talks fondly of friends he made and productions he was photographed in …