User:Unmondepourtout/sandbox/Edward F. McClennen, 1936-2013

Edward F. McClennen (who generally went by Ned) was a gifted philosopher who worked primarily in the formal areas of decision theory and game theory. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He taught at numerous places including Washington University, Bowling Green State University, The London School of Economics, and Syracuse University.

On the one hand, he was rather idiosyncratic. On the other hand, though, he was a tremendous scholar and a marvelous colleague. Although he was capable of brilliant theoretical insights, he was nonetheless a very down-to-earth and practical person. Indeed, he was also a very modest individual with a deep, deep commitment to equality and basic moral decency. He insisted that all of his colleagues be treated decently and would take major steps to achieve that end for a colleague. So he did not just pay lip-service to equality.

McClennen's major contribution to intellectual thought is Rationality and Dynamic Choice: Foundational Explorations (Cambridge University Press, 1990).