ABSTRACT
MADDEN, EDWARD H. Edward Harry Madden (1925-2006) was born in Gary, Indiana on 18 May 1925. He received his BA in 1946 and his MA in 1947 from Oberlin College. In 1950 he received his PhD at the University of Iowa with a dissertation entitled ‘‘An Examination of Gestalt Theory’’ directed by Gustav Bergmann. His early teaching positions in philosophy were at the University of Connecticut from 1950 to 1959, and at San Jose State University from 1959 to 1964. From 1964 until his retirement in 1980 he taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He also held visiting positions at Brown, Amherst, Toronto, American University of Beirut, Linacre College (Oxford), and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. In retirement he lived in Wilmore, Kentucky, where he was a visiting research fellow at Asbury College in 1981-2. From 1982 to 1994 he was an adjunct professor at the University of Kentucky. In 2000 he moved to White River Junction, Vermont, where he died at home on 25 November 2006.
