My Mother and Mike’s Mother were sisters so we spent a lot of our childhood with the Inwood cousins.
We all loved Mike and although he was 5 years older than us he was incredibly kind and accommodating and good fun.
We adored his humour and wit and his lack of conformity.
As a young teenager he took my sister and I on CND marches in the 60’s and we used to walk from Pettswood in Kent to London via the Chistlehurst Caves. He instilled in us a sense of social justice at an early age.
So many beautiful memories of Mike then and in later life. On return trips to the UK from Australia a visit to Oxford to see Mike and lunch with him at Trinity was always high on the itinerary. Such a wonderful self effacing man who treated all who came into contact with him with kindness and respect.
I am so sad at his passing

On the subject of untidiness, Mike once told me that some people thought he ought to tidy it. 'But then I would have to become a different kind of person.' he said. And this is just what nobody would have wanted! He was kindly, sincere, humble, and blessed with a ferocious, yet always generous, intelligence.

Really appreciate reading all these memories. I never knew him as a teacher - so it's nice to hear about what he was like in that context. To me he was a nice, friendly funny man, who didn't worry about looking smart or saying the right thing.

I had the privilege of being taught both Plato and Aquinas by Mike as a superannuated undergraduate back in the early years of this century. As Fiona Ellis says, his office in Trinity was stupendously untidy. Magnificently, disastrously, calamitously untidy. To step inside was to step into a caricature of an Oxford don's rooms. The table that dominated one end was piled high with books, papers and journals - so high in fact that one day, presumably some years - if not decades - in the past, the pile had declared its own solution to the sorites problem and collapsed in an exhausted heap, creating an obstacle course for anyone wishing to get to the other end of the room. This further end was itself strewn with detritus - mainly empty coffee jars and pages of notes and essays. As I recall, Mike would drink endless cups of black instant coffee - in which you were more than welcome to join him, providing you didn't go in for frivolities like milk, or sugar, or cups any more than just passably clean. It seemed a miracle that, if ever you handed in or sent a piece or work that it should ever find its way back to you, though it invariably did.

In subsequent years, Mike became something of a family friend and he visited us both on the Isle of Wight, where his mother and sister also lived, and once we met up when my wife and I were staying in Athens. I shall never forget the sight of him puffing away on his pipe on the balcony of our hotel with the Parthenon silhouetted in the background. A delightful memory!

I first met Mike in my PhD viva, where the other examiner was Mike Rosen - so it was trial by two Mikes, and both were external examiners (Cambridge has run out of Hegelians suitable to viva me) - so it was a pretty intimidating experience, though both were very kind and quickly put me at ease. Mike and I stayed in touch over the years, and of course I have read many of his works, mostly the publications on Hegel, and I admire them very much. His deep knowledge of the texts is clear, as is his sharp engagement with the philosophical issues raised. He death is a great loss to the Hegel community in the UK. I am preparing an obituary for him for the Hegel Bulletin, and would welcome any information and views (both on his personal life and as a teacher, and on his philosophical work and influence etc), as this will help me in writing the obituary. Please send to r.stern@sheffield.ac.uk

Warm condolences to the family and the friends.
Even if I didn't have the chance to meet Professor Inwood personally, I highly appreciated his work, which constitutes an exceptional contribution to the philosophical research worldwide. His departure is a great loss for all the members of the scientific community. He'll be always remembered with admiration. May he rest in peace.

I met Mike at Heythrop College at one of the Philosophy of Religion seminars organised by Fiona Ellis. It was in 2007, I think. He faithfully attended these seminars, after which we would go for coffee or dinner to the local Cafe Rouge (Kensington, London). It was always a joy to have him around. At seminars, he rarely spoke but when he did it was always inspiring and made you think. He was a brilliant thinker who knew so much yet was never boastful.

As Fiona mentioned in her tribute, he had a wonderful sense humour and a real skill to write not only heavy academic studies but funny stories too. I was the other lucky recipient of his comic novel. The episodes (no longer than a page) would arrive almost every evening in our inboxes for several years... They were hilarious. They had history, philosophy and geography in them as well as a great sense of understanding of the human condition. They were little masterpieces that made our days light, funny and happy.

Mike also acted as external examiner at Heythrop College where I was teaching ethics. He was diligent, perceptive and kind. He was interested in people, their work, views and questions. I remember struggling with the concept of akrasia for one of my ethics lectures. Mike not only helpfully explained it to me but allow me to use his notes (which I continue to use to this day). Similarly, he helped me with getting to understand the various meanings of 'moral imagination' - not only he shared his thoughts on the topic but got me books and papers. He was generous, kind, humorous, humble, person-centred - a thoroughly good man and a wonderful human being whom I will miss.
May he rest in peace.

I first got to know Mike when I was doing my Bphil at Oxford. He was giving a class on Heidegger and Plato, and all the participants smoked throughout! He was the internal examiner for my Dphil, and I later got to know him very well. He attended all the philosophy of religion seminars we put on at Heythrop College and was a fantastic support to me at so many levels. I have always benefited from his deep and sharp philosophical mind (my book God, Value, and Nature would have been rather less good if not for Mike's careful commentary and suggestions), and - a less well known fact about him - he was a great writer of comic fiction (in the spirit of David Lodge!). He would send over a chapter a night for many months - for two avid readers - and kept our spirits up with the hilarious antics of his characters. Mike was so kind and sweet and funny and humble. He had no time for airs and graces, and was decidedly unimpressed by egomaniacs and career philosophers. He took religion very seriously, he took his students very seriously, and his office was the messiest place I've ever seen in my life. Oh Mike, I'll miss you so much.