Mark D. Sacks (29 December 1953 – 17 June 2008) was a British

philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

best known for his work on Kant, Post-Kantian

idealism In philosophy, the term idealism identifies and describes metaphysical perspectives which assert that reality is indistinguishable and inseparable from perception and understanding; that reality is a mental construct closely connected to ide ...

, and the epistemological tradition in European Philosophy. He was one of the few philosophers in Britain who sought to integrate the

Analytic philosophy Analytic philosophy is a branch and tradition of philosophy using analysis, popular in the Western world and particularly the Anglosphere, which began around the turn of the 20th century in the contemporary era in the United Kingdom, United Sta ...

tradition with

Continental philosophy Continental philosophy is a term used to describe some philosophers and philosophical traditions that do not fall under the umbrella of analytic philosophy. However, there is no academic consensus on the definition of continental philosophy. Pri ...

. He founded the European Journal of Philosophy in 1993, which is now a leading venue for work on

. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Essex until his death. His first degree was in philosophy, at

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

. He obtained a doctorate in philosophy from

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ...

under the supervision of

Bernard Williams Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams, FBA (21 September 1929 – 10 June 2003) was an English moral philosopher. His publications include ''Problems of the Self'' (1973), ''Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy'' (1985), ''Shame and Necessity'' ...

. He died from

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at the age of 54.

Work

* ''Objectivity and Insight'' (2003) * ''The World We Found'' (1989)

External links

Personal home page with bibliography
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Obituary
from The Guardian
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from rchived by Wayback Machine {{DEFAULTSORT:Sacks, Mark 1953 births 20th-century British philosophers 21st-century British philosophers Academics of the University of Essex Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Deaths from prostate cancer Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni 2008 deaths Epistemologists