{"id":44658,"date":"2017-05-03T11:30:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T15:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=44658"},"modified":"2017-05-03T16:27:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T20:27:58","slug":"longtime-philosophy-professor-remembered-for-brock-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/05\/longtime-philosophy-professor-remembered-for-brock-contributions\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime philosophy professor remembered for Brock contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\">Longtime philosophy professor and Brock University supporter David Goicoechea has passed away at the age of 78.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Goicoechea began teaching at Brock in 1967 with a focus on the philosophy of love, existentialism and postmodernism. He retired in 2003 but remained active in hosting discussion groups and a yearly con<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-44666\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/David-Goicoechea-1600x1847-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"307\" \/>ference, as well as writing a series of books.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 1982, Goicoechea founded the Brock University Philosophy Society, which hosted more than 100 international conferences and raised more than $400,000 in scholarships for philosophy students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A funeral mass will be celebrated in the Cathedral of St. Catherine of Alexandria, 67 Church St. in St. Catharines, on Thursday, May 4 at 10:30 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Brock University David Goicoechea and Johanna Tito Scholarship Fund or Niagara Spay Neuter Assistance Program Inc.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime philosophy professor and Brock University supporter David Goicoechea has passed away at the age of 78.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,1,4],"tags":[5292,5291],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44667,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44658\/revisions\/44667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}