published little and established no school, but was revered for his extraordinary intelligence and moral seriousness. He was a famously influential teacher; his former students included Jerry Fodor, Raymond Geuss, Alvin Goldman, Daniel M. Hausman, Robert Nozick, Hilary Putnam, Gideon Rosen, Mark Steiner, and Michael Stocker. In 1967, Morgenbesser signed a letter declaring his intention to refuse to pay taxes in protest against the U.S. war in Vietnam, and urging other people to also take this stand. Works Books, (co-)edited (1960) with Arthur Danto [preface by Ernest Nagel], Philosophy of Science (New York). (1962) with James Walsh, Free Will, (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,). (1967) Philosophy of Science Today, US: Basic Books Inc. (1969) with Patrick Suppes and Morton White, Philosophy, Science, and Method: Essays in Honor of Ernest Nagel (1974) with Virginia Held and Thomas Nagel, Philosophy, Morality, and International Affairs: essays edited for the Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs. New York: Oxford University Press. . (1977) Dewey and His Critics: Essays from the Journal of Philosophy (New York). Select articles, book chapters (co-)authored “The Decline of Religious Liberalism,” The Reconstructionist 19 (1953): 17–24. "On the Justification of Beliefs and Attitudes." The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 51, no. 20, 1954, pp. 565–576 "Character and Free Will," with Arthur Danto, The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 54, No. 16 (Aug. 1, 1957), pp. 493–505 "Approaches to Ethical Objectivity," Educational Theory 7 (1957): 180–86. “Social Inquiry and Moral Judgement,” in Philosophy and Education, ed. Israel Scheffler (1958): 180–200. “Role and Status of Anthropological Theories,” Science 128 (1958): 72–9. “The Deductive Model and Its Qualifications,” in Induction: Some Current Issues, ed. Henry Kyburg and Ernest Nagel (1963), pp. 169–80. “Perception: Cause and Achievement,” in Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, ed. Marx Wartofsky (1963), pp. 206–12. "Belief and Disposition," with Isaac Levi American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 3, 1964, pp. 221–232. “Is It Science?” Social Research 33 (1966): 255–71. “The Realist-instrumentalist Controversy,” in Philosophy, Science and Method: Essays in Honor of Ernest Nagel (1969), pp. 200–18. “Imperialism: Some Preliminary Distinctions,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 3 (1973): 3–44. “Experimentation and Consent: A Note,” in Philosophical Medical Ethics: Its Nature and Significance ed. Stuart Spicker and H. Tristam Engelhardt (1977), pp. 97–110. “Picking and Choosing,” with E. Ullman-Marglit, Social Research 44 (1977): 757–85. “The Questions of Isaiah Berlin,” with J. Lieberson, New York Review of Books 27 (1980): 38–42. For a more complete record