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Professor Sturgeon, who joined the Cornell faculty in 1967 and taught there until his retirement, was best-known for his naturalist moral realism and his contributions to the debate about "moral explanations" in the 1980s and 1990s. I will add links to memorial notices when they appear.
ADDENDUM: Philosopher John Doris, who was an undergraduate at Cornell and is now on the Cornell faculty, writes: "Nick was incredibly generous to me when I was an undergraduate. He was an extraordinary teacher not only of ethics, but also history, and his course on the Empiricists was a classic. I can still see him, almost always in the same tan chamois shirt, sitting on a desk and lecturing, noteless, armed only with an impossibly battered copy of Locke's Essays."
UPDATE: A memorial notice from Cornell. (Thanks to Phil Gasper for the pointer.)
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