Edith Wyschogrod

Edith Wyschogrod (June 8, 1930[1] – July 16, 2009) was an American philosopher.

[1][2] Wyschogrod joined Rice's Religious Studies Department in 1992, as the J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought; she retired in 2002, and held the title of professor emeritus from 2003.

[1] She served one term as president of the American Academy of Religion (1993).

[4] Her work centered on ethical and philosophical themes such as justice and alterity; modern philosophy in light of technologically assisted mass death; and memory and forgetting.

[5] She died July 16, 2009, in New York City at the age of 79.