Dale Jacquette (April 19, 1953 – August 22, 2016) was an American analytic philosopher.^[1] At the time of his death, he was Professor Ordinarius of Philosophy at the University of Bern.^[1] Jacquette had previously served on the faculty of Penn State University.^[1] He received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from Oberlin College in 1975, and his PhD in the same subject from Brown University in 1983, writing a dissertation on the logic of intention supervised by Roderick Chisholm.^[1] Jacquette had broad research interests in the philosophy of intentionality, logic, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, Wittgenstein, ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, and the history of philosophy.^[2] A prolific writer, Jacquette published books on Meinong, logic, cannabis, psychologism, and the ethics of capital punishment in the final decade of his life.^[3] He was a defender of Aristotelian realist philosophy of mathematics.^[4]

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