Background
John William Nevill Watkins was born on July 31, 1924, in Woking, Surrey, England. He was the son of William Hugh and Winifred Ethel (Jeffries) Watkins.
Senate House, Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HU, United Kingdom
In 1949, Watkins received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of London.
New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
Watkins received a Master of Arts from Yale University in 1950.
Senate House, Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HU, United Kingdom
In 1949, Watkins received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of London.
New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
Watkins received a Master of Arts from Yale University in 1950.
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John William Nevill Watkins was born on July 31, 1924, in Woking, Surrey, England. He was the son of William Hugh and Winifred Ethel (Jeffries) Watkins.
In 1949, Watkins received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of London and a Master of Arts from Yale University in 1950.
After graduating from Yale Watkins returned to England and joined the faculty of his alma mater as an assistant lecturer in political science but moved to the philosophy department in 1957. He became a Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics from 1966 until his retirement in 1989. After his retirement in 1989, Watkins continued to write and to travel widely to conferences and lecturing assignments.
John William Nevill Watkins has been listed as a noteworthy philosophy educator. He wrote three books: Hobbes’s System of Ideas, Science and Skepticism, and Human Freedom after Darwin, and numerous articles. His main areas of scholarly interest were rational decision theory, freedom, skepticism, and the mind.
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1999During his tenure Watkins was known as a proponent of critical rationalism, which suggests that knowledge is discovered by strenuous criticism combined with creative guessing that is not based on evidence.
On April 4, 1952, John W. N. Watkins married Millicent Joan Roe.
