Paul Howe Shepard; Philosophy Professor, Human Ecology Writer

Paul Howe Shepard Jr., 71, philosophy professor who wrote and edited books on human ecology. A native of Kansas City, Mo., Shepard held degrees from the University of Missouri and Yale University and studied on Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships. He taught for 21 years at Pitzer College and Claremont Graduate School in Claremont. A Los Angeles Times reviewer appraised his work in “The Sacred Paw,” a book Shepard coauthored with Barry Sanders, as: “literate, scholarly, but far from detached.” Most of Shepard’s books dealt with connections of humans to animals and nature. Among his writings were the 1978 book, “Thinking Animals: Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence,” and the 1967 book, “Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature.” On July 16 in Salt Lake City of lung cancer.