Henry E. Allison

Life and career Allison graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Philosophy in 1959. He wanted to work on philosophy of religion, and so he enrolled at Columbia University; it had a joint master's program with Union Theological Seminary (New York). After teaching at the State University of New York at Potsdam, the Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Florida, After a visiting appointment as the John Findlay Visiting Professor in 1995, he joined the faculty at Boston University in 1996, remaining until 2004. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1996 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2023. He died before he could be inducted, on June 5, 2023, at the age of 86.

Philosophical work His areas of interest were Immanuel Kant, Baruch Spinoza, German idealism, 18th and 19th century philosophy.