{"id":812,"date":"2022-06-02T07:27:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T07:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughmellor.com\/?p=812"},"modified":"2022-06-02T07:27:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T07:27:31","slug":"memorial-elliott-sober","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughmellor.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/02\/memorial-elliott-sober\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial: Elliott Sober"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got to know Hugh in 1970-72 when I was a research student in working with Mary Hesse. \u00a0I was not expecting a member of \u00a0faculty to be friendly to me, a lowly student from a foreign land.\u00a0 Still less did I expect Hugh to invite my wife Norma and me to his place for dinner.\u00a0 Hugh, Norma, and I were theatre enthusiasts, so we went to plays together and traded tips on what we liked and did not. After those student days, I tried to see Hugh whenever I was in England. Our last conversation was in Fall, 2019.\u00a0 Hugh was his usual self, personifying Van Fraassen\u2019s quip that you can tell when a good philosophical discussion is underway \u2013 the discussants are laughing.\u00a0 I learned a lot from Hugh\u2019s prose, both the style and the substance.\u00a0 His realism about metaphysics, his disinclination to talk about metaphilosophy, and his embrace of objective probability all had their impact.\u00a0 I miss him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to know Hugh in 1970-72 when I was a research student in working with Mary Hesse. \u00a0I was not expecting a member of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughmellor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughmellor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughmellor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughmellor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughmellor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hughmellor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/hughmellor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughmellor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughmellor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughmellor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}