I was shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Ken Taylor, a long time friend, colleague, and co-host. Stunned, actually. A great man with a wonderful family, who have my deepest sympathy. I always thought of Ken as my younger brilliant energetic colleague. It wasn't his turn to die.

肯于1995年来到斯坦福大学。要把他从罗格斯大学引开并不容易，罗格斯大学当时和现在都是顶尖的哲学系之一。我们有一个强大的系，但也有加州和斯坦福作为我们的考虑因素。肯、他可爱而多才多艺的妻子克莱尔和他们的儿子清为加州增添了许多。Ken很快成为系里的领导，一位受人尊敬的老师，许多杰出博士的导师和校园里重要的声音。他担任系主任，并在学术委员会任职。与此同时，他从罗格斯大学(Rutgers)来的时候，他的著作主体主要是语言哲学和相关领域，已经令人印象深刻，现在继续蓬勃发展，还有三本书，都很重要，第四本书即将提交——ken在他去世的那天在Facebook上告诉我们这一点。

In 2005 Ken and I started中国伊朗亚洲杯比赛直播在时任教务长约翰·埃切门迪(John Etchemendy)的慷慨帮助下，该项目“质疑除了你的智力之外的一切”。从那时起，它每周都在KALW播出。从KALW和俄勒冈公共广播电台开始，它已经发展到来自几个国家的超过100个电台。Ken和我曾经是搭档主持，直到几年前我没油了;从那时起，Josh Landy和Debra Satz就成为了共同主持人，尽管Debra现在有点分心，因为她是斯坦福大学H&S的院长。

Ken was a person of dynamism and determination. He put together a great support staff for the show, starting with Ben Manilla at the helm as producer, and now Devon Strolovitch for many years. Laura Maguire, one of Ken’s Ph.D. students, has long co-ordinated research for中国伊朗亚洲杯比赛直播, involving Stanford undergraduates to develop topics and suggests guests—a system that was all Ken’s idea.

Ken’s passing is a great loss not only to his family and close friends, but to all who were inspired by his research and teaching. And those who were intrigued by his opinions, readily available on the radio and in print: always presented with reason, often anticipating issues, problems and positions not yet conceptualized by others, usually insightful and always presented forcefully and confidently.