British philosophers

Alfred Cyril Ewing ( May 11, 1899 - May 14, 1973) was a British idealist philosopher. He believed that the study of the history of philosophy was important to philosophical practice, and paid particular attention to this in his studies of Kant. He was a defender of speculative metaphysics. ...more on Wikipedia about "A. C. Ewing"

Alan Millar is the Head of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Millar researches philosophy of mind and the theory of knowledge. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Millar"

Alexander Bryan Johnson ( 1786- 1867) was a notable philosopher and banker. Born in Gosport, England, at age 16 he emigrated to the USA. His work was little recognised in his own time, and this remained the case for nearly a century after his death. His work can now be seen to have anticipated the thrust of logical positivism and theories of modern linguistics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Bryan Johnson"

Sir Alfred Jules Ayer ( October 29, 1910 – June 27, 1989), better known as A. J. Ayer (or Freddie by his friends), was a British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth and Logic (1936) and The Problem of Knowledge (1956). ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred Ayer"

Alfred North Whitehead, OM ( February 15 1861 – December 30 1947) was a British mathematician who evolved into a philosopher. He was born in Ramsgate, Kent, UK, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education. He is the coauthor, along with Bertrand Russell, of the epochal Principia Mathematica. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred North Whitehead"

Andrea Christofidou is a lecturer in philosophy at Keble College, Oxford. She has taught philosophy at the University of Oxford since 1992, and at Keble since 2001. She previously held lectureships at Balliol and Worcester College. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andrea Christofidou"

Saint Anselm of Canterbury ( 1033 or 1034 – April 21 1109), a widely influential medieval philosopher and theologian, held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109. Called the founder of Scholasticism, he is famous as the inventor of the ontological argument for the existence of God. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anselm of Canterbury" www.shortopedia.com, there's no better way. British_philosophers

Lord Anthony Quinton (born 1925) is a British political and moral philosopher, metaphysician, and materialist philosopher of mind. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anthony Quinton"

Professor Antony Garrard Newton Flew (born February 11 1923) is a British philosopher, known principally as a supporter of libertarianism and atheism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Antony Flew"

Augustus De Morgan ( June 27, 1806 - March 18, 1871) was an Indian-born British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and was the first to introduce the term, and make rigorous the idea of mathematical induction. De Morgan crater on the Moon is named after him. ...more on Wikipedia about "Augustus De Morgan"

Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams ( September 21, 1929 – June 10, 2003) was an English moral philosopher, noted by The Times as the "most brilliant and most important British moral philosopher of his time." ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Bernard Williams"

Dr. Brynmor ('Bryn') Browne is a philosopher, who currently lectures at the University of Wales, Lampeter. He is most noted for his papers on ethics and particularly on the subject of moral luck, in which he argues that moral luck is only troubling because we mistakenly tend to think of moral assessment as bound up with punishment. He argues that, once we correct our thinking, cases of moral luck cease to be troubling. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bryn Browne"

Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad ( August 12, 1891 - April 9, 1953) was a English philosopher and broadcasting personality. He is most famous for his appearance on the BBC's Brain's Trust, an extremely popular wartime discussion programme. He managed to popularise Philosophy and became a celebrity, before he lost fame and fortune in the Train Ticket Scandal of 1948. ...more on Wikipedia about "C. E. M. Joad"

Catharine Trotter Cockburn ( 1679- 1749) was a British Catholic moral philosopher, poet and playwright. ...more on Wikipedia about "Catherine Trotter Cockburn" Inform your friends about www.shortopedia.com

Celia Green (born 1935) is a British intellectual and author, notable for her advocacy of comprehensive philosophical skepticism, her critique of 20th-century thought, and her psychological theories. ...more on Wikipedia about "Celia Green"

Christopher Arthur Bruce Rosen Peacocke (born 22 May 1950) is a philosopher especially active on questions in the philosophy of mind. He was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford University from 1989 to 2000, and now is professor of philosophy at Columbia University. ...more on Wikipedia about "Christopher Peacocke"

Crispin Wright (born 1942) is a British philosopher, who has written on neo-Fregean philosophy of mathematics, Wittgenstein's later philosophy, and on issues related to truth, realism, cognitivism, skepticism, knowledge and objectivity. He is Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St. Andrews. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crispin Wright"

Professor David Cockburn studied Philosophy at St Andrews and Oxford, and has taught at Swansea, the Open University, and, since 1985, the University of Wales, Lampeter. He held a British Academy Readership in 1994-96, during which he wrote Other Times. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Cockburn"

David Guest ( 1911 - 1938) was a Communist British mathematician and philosopher who volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War and was killed in Spain in 1938. He had entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1929 and studied from 1930 to 1931 in Göttingen in Germany, where he became involved in anti- Nazi politics, and joined the Communist Party at Cambridge 1931. After leaving Cambridge he lectured in mathematics and worked for the Communist party, even teaching in a secondary school for English-speaking children in Moscow. In 1938 he left work as a lecturer at University College in Southampton to volunteer for the International Brigade fighting in Spain. He wrote of his decision: ...more on Wikipedia about "David Guest"

David Hartley ( August 30, 1705 - August 28, 1757) was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of psychology. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Hartley (philosopher)"

David Pearce is a British philosopher who promotes the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Pearce"

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David Walford is a lecturer at the University of Wales, Lampeter. His main areas of interest is German Philosophy, more specifically, pre-critical Kant, the aesthetics of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche; and the early thought of Heidegger. He holds an MA from St Andrews. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Walford"

David Wiggins (born 8 March 1933) is a British moral philosopher, metaphysician, and philosophical logician working especially on identity. He's NOT on the Iowa Supreme Court. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Wiggins"

Dorothy Edgington is a philosopher active in metaphysics and the philosophical logic. She is the current Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dorothy Edgington"

Francis Herbert Bradley ( 30 January, 1846 – 18 September, 1924) was a British philosopher. ...more on Wikipedia about "F. H. Bradley"

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