R.W. Beardsmore, 1944-1997. (philosopher, University of Wales)(Obituary)

Apart from visiting appointments at the Universities of Texas and Mississippi, Dick Beardsmore spent his entire career in the University of Wales where he was first an undergraduate and then a postgraduate. He was a product of Welsh Wittgensteinianism. His Master's thesis became his first book, Moral Reasoning, a remarkable achievement on any account for a young man in his mid-twenties. After a one-year appointment at Lampeter, he moved to Bangor and then, on the demise of that department, to Swansea where he made a great success of the unenviable job of head of department. His main interests were in moral philosophy and aesthetics, and readers of this journal will be familiar …