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EUGENE SAPADIN Obituary

SAPADIN--Eugene, of Burlington, VT, age 73, on September 19. A graduate of Forest Hills High School, Middlebury College, Harvard University and the Claremont Graduate School in California, Gene was a popular professor of philosophy for 39 years at Johnson State College in Vermont and a dedicated researcher and lecturer at Wolfson College, Oxford University. He was friend, scholar, teacher, writer, uncle, brother and beloved curmudgeon. He leaves a huge Gene-shaped hole in the universe. A private memorial will be held in NYC on October 6 and a celebration of his life at Johnson State College on October 25.

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Published by New York Times on Oct. 6, 2013.

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Anne W Herman

January 14, 2026

He was my first philosophy professor, when he was visiting at the University of New Hampshire, and he helped set me on the path to majoring in philosophy. We had the most interesting conversations about perception! I've thought of him many times, and today I finally looked him up. I'm sad to see that he's gone. He was such a dynamic person!

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