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A. J. Ayer
(1910–1989)British philosopher, responsible for introducing the principles of logical positivism of the Vienna Circle to British philosophers. He was knighted in 1970.Born in London, Ayer was ...
Anthony Douglas Woozley
(1912–)Anthony Woozley was born on 14 August 1912. After an early education at Haileybury College (1926–31), he was admitted to Queen's College, Oxford, where he read Greats and had ...
Anthony John Patrick Kenny
(1931– ).British philosopher who has written on topics in the philosophy of mind, medieval philosophy, ancient philosophy, the philosophy of Wittgenstein, the philosophy of Descartes, moral ...
Antony Garrard Newton Flew
(1923–)Antony Flew was born on 11 February 1923 in Ealing, London, England. He attended St. Faith’s Preparatory School, Kingswood School, and St. John’s College, Oxford, where he earned a ...
Austin Ernest Duncan-Jones
(1908–67)A. E. Duncan-Jones was born in Cambridge on 5 August 1906 and died in Birmingham on 2 April 1967. He was the son of the Very Revd Arthur Stuart ...
Austin, John Langshaw (1911–60) Reference library
The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy
J. L. Austin was born in Lancaster on 26 March 1911 and died in Oxford on 8 February 1960.
Austin, John Langshaw (1911–1960) Reference library
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (2 ed.)
(1911–1960). British philosopher,
important in linguistics as the originator, in the 1950s, of the distinction between constative and
Austin, J. L. Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
(1911–60),
British philosopher, born in Lancaster, educated at Balliol College, Oxford; he was White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford from ...
Austin, John Langshaw Reference library
Jennifer Hornsby
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
(1911–60).
Philosopher reputed to have led a movement giving rise in the 1950s and 1960s to ‘linguistic philosophy...
Daniel John O'Connor
(1914–)Daniel John O'Connor was born in Seattle, Washington on 2 April 1914. He studied at Birkbeck College, University of London. He entered the Civil Service in 1933. He was ...
Francis Sparshott
(1926– ),was born in Chatham, England. He served with the Intelligence Corps, attended Oxford University, and went to the University of Toronto in 1950. He is now that university's professor ...
Frank Noel Sibley
(1923–96)Frank Sibley was born in London on 28 February 1923 and died on 18 February 1996. After education at University College, Oxford he began his teaching career in the ...
free Will
The problem is to reconcile our everyday consciousness of ourselves as agents, with the best view of what science tells us that we are. Determinism is one part of the problem. It may be defined as ...
Friedrich Waismann
(1896–1959)Austrian member of the Vienna Circle. Waismann is principally remembered for a defence of conventionalism in logic and mathematics, and for introducing the notion of ‘porosity’ or open ...
G. A Cohen
(1941–2009).Canadian political philosopher who specialized in the study of Marxism. He was a leading proponent of ‘analytical Marxism’—the view that the traditional doctrines of Marxism should be ...
Geoffrey J. Warnock
(1923–96).Warnock's first major publication was a monograph on Berkeley (Berkeley (Harmondsworth, 1953) in which he brought some of the tools of modern ‘linguistic philosophy’ to bear on Berkeley's ...
George Andrew Paul
(1912–62)George Andrew Paul was born in Corsock, Dumfriesshire on 18 May 1912 and died in a sailing accident on Coniston Water in the Lake District. He undertook his higher ...
George Edward Moore
(1873–?1958)British philosopher, a leading figure in modern analytic philosophy.Born in London, the son of a doctor, Moore was educated at Dulwich College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he ...
Gilbert Ryle
(1900–1976)British philosopher, a leading figure in contemporary Oxford linguistic philosophy.Born in Brighton, the son of a doctor, Ryle was educated at Queen's College, Oxford. Apart from the war ...
Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart
(1907–92)English philosopher of law. Hart's first career was as a lawyer; he became Fellow and Tutor in philosophy at New College, Oxford (1945–52), then professor of jurisprudence at Oxford ...
