Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Hugo Adam Bedau

Born: September 23, 1926
Died: August 13, 2012 (aged 85)
Bio: Hugo Adam Bedau was the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Tufts University, and is best known for his work on capital punishment. He has been called a "leading anti-death-penalty scholar" by Stuart Taylor Jr.
Known for:
- In Spite Of Innocence (1992)
- From Critical Thinking to Argument
- Thinking and writing about philosophy (1996)
- Killing as Punishment (2004)