 He was President of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1969 (and in 1985 was awarded the Society's Paul Weiss Medal for the outstanding contribution to Metaphysics), and President of the Hegel Society of America in 1977-8.He had a home near Ambleside in the Lake District in England since 1963, taking up permanent residence there in his latter years.He died on 21 June 2009 at the age of 101.