Fernando Gil, a founding member of IASC, who organized one of its workshops in Paris and participated in several others, passed away. Fernando was one of the first contemporary thinkers to highlight the epistemological importance of controversies. He in fact organized in Evora, Portugal, in December 1985, what was perhaps the first international conference devoted to controversies, under the title "Controvérsias Científicas e Filosóficas", whose proceedings he edited in 1990 (Lisboa Editora Fragmentos). IASC follows Fernando's insight, and we pay homage to his intellectual legacy in this respect.

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Eduardo Rabossi, founder and chair for many years of the Sociedad Argentina de Analisis Filosófico (SADAF), as well as founder and editor for many years of Analisis, SADAF's prestigious journal, passed away. He was a member of IASC, who always accorded fundamental importance to controversy and critique as the basic tools of intellectual progress, in theory, in practice, and in his activities for the restoration of democracy and justice in Argentina.

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