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Donald Edward Coe (November 23, 1937 – October 11, 2014),^[1] or Don Coe, was an American philosophy professor in Oregon. He taught at Duke University, where he earned his PhD, at Portland State College, Oregon State University, and at Willamette University.

Coe was born in Coats, Kansas,^[2] to C. Claire and Pearl née Haney Coe.^[3] He was the brother of Margaret Coe, a painter in Eugene, Oregon, and nephew of Robert E. Coe Jr.,^[4] the former treasurer of Marion County. His second cousin was prominent evangelical Douglas Coe of Salem who was the associate director of the Fellowship Foundation.^[5][6] The Coes are descended from American colonial Robert Coe.^[5][7]

Coe attended Coats High School until his family moved to Oregon when he was 15.^[8] While there, he was the president of his high school's associated student government, was on his high school track team, played in the band, and was in Glee club. He graduated from South Salem High School in 1955, where he earned perfect grades, was elected to the National Honor Society,^[2] and won several other scholastic honors.^[9]

Upon his graduation, Coe was nominated by congressman A. Walter Norblad for the second class at the United States Air Force Academy^[2] for one of four vacancies allotted to the state.^[10] Coe instead elected to enroll at Willamette University (WU) where he was in the Honors Program; one of 15 students per grade.^[11] At WU, Coe joined Phi Delta Kappa and was elected to the chapter's position of historian,^[12] publicity chairman of their UNESCO chapter,^[13] and as a delegate for the tenth commemorative Model United Nations at the University of California, Berkeley.^[14] He was also a lead actor in UW's theatre productions,^[15] his most notable role as Mortimer Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace,^[16] and a staff writer for the Willamette Collegian.^[17]

During fall semester of his junior year, Coe participated in a study abroad program at International People's College in Helsingør.^[18] In 1961, his senior year, Coe won the inaugural Willamette Honors Essay Contest conferred by historian O. W. Frost on the topic "Everything that can be known can be known by the methods of science, and conversely, anything that cannot be known to science cannot be known." It was published in the Willamette Honors Annual.^[11][19] He graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy,^[20] as one of 20 students at WU with a 4.0 Grade Point Average.^[21][22] In 1961, he was awarded a graduate scholarship in the philosophy department at Duke University.^[3][23] In 1963, he passed the philosophy Graduate Record Examination, completing his Doctor of Philosophy in an unusually short amount of time.^[24][25]

Coe was part-time Duke faculty at Duke until 1966,^[26] when he accepted an associate professorship at Portland State College in the philosophy department.^[27] Soon after, he joined Oregon State University as a full professor, where he stayed until 1969, when he took first a part-time position at WU, which turned full-time the following year.^[28][29] While there, he founded the school's philosophy club, then called the Socratic Society, to foster philosophical discussion among WU students.^[30] He took a leave of absence in the fall of 1972.^[31] He died in Salem in 2014.^[1]