David Hugh Mellor FBA FAHA (/ˈmɛlər/; 10 July 1938 – 21 June 2020) was a British philosopher.
[2] He obtained his PhD in philosophy, with a thesis written under the supervision of Mary Hesse, at Pembroke in 1968.
Mellor was in the news in 1992, when he argued against Cambridge awarding an honorary degree to Jacques Derrida, a French philosopher known for his theory of "deconstruction".
A formal ballot decided to award the degree, but Mellor said it was undeserved, explaining: "He is a mediocre, unoriginal philosopher — he is not even interestingly bad.
[8] Authored Edited *For more complete publication details see the tribute page by Tim Crane.