Louis Henry Mackey (September 24, 1926 – March 25, 2004) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin.
[2] Mackey was an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Yale before moving to Rice University in 1959.
In 1987 he won the Harry Ransom Award for Teaching Excellence at the University of Texas at Austin.
Mackey was known as an ardent lover of music and accomplished amateur singer of madrigal, oratorio, cantata, and liturgical chant.
[1] However, he was also on record as a defender of popular music claiming that The Beatles and The Rolling Stones "display a phenomenal melodic inventiveness and a harmonic and contrapuntal imagination that even us squares can dig.