The Philosophy Department of Boston College mourns the loss of Prof. Ronald Anderson, S.J., who died unexpectedly on June 3, 2007.
  Prof. Anderson was a faculty member of  the Department since 1985. He offered courses in Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Science and Religion and Spirituality, as well as advanced Symbolic Logic and "Einstein, Heisenberg & Gödel: Relativity, Uncertainty & Incompleteness."
  Prof. Anderson was a native of New Zealand. Before joining the  Philosophy department, he received his second doctorate, in Philosophy, from Boston University in 1991 (dissertation"The Ontological Status of Potentials in Classical Electromagnetism"). 
  Before that he also received a doctorate in Physics from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and published several articles in elementary particle theory.
  His students described him as "a conscientious and caring professor, friend, and mentor to all of us; he shaped our time at BC from the very beginning right through to the end."  He will be greatly missed by his students, his friends and his colleagues.