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Passmore, John Arthur was born on September 9, 1914 in Manly, New South Wales, Australia. Son of Frederick Maurice and Ruby (Moule) Passmore.
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In this survey, John Passmore concentrates on the British tradition in logic, metaphysics and the theory of knowledge, yet he never neglects parallel developments in Europe and America. He considers the crucial new insights that were generated into probability, propositions and private languages, meaning, minds and bodies and the limits of science. Accounts explore the main schools and individual contributions of philosophers ranging from Ayer to Bradley, from Heidegger to Popper, from Moore to Merleau-Ponty and from Russell to Ryle.
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Passmore, John Arthur was born on September 9, 1914 in Manly, New South Wales, Australia. Son of Frederick Maurice and Ruby (Moule) Passmore.
Bachelor, University Sydney, Australia, 1934. Master of Arts, University Sydney, Australia, 1942. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Sydney, Australia, 1981.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 1989. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Anugrah Narayan University, 1996.
Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Sydney University 1935-1949. Professor, of Philosophy, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand 1950-1954. Reader in Philosophy, Institute of Advanced Studies, A.N.U. 1955-1958, Professor 79, now Professor Emeritus.
University Fellow, History of Ideas, A.N.U. 1981-1982, Visiting Fellow in History of Ideas since 1983. Visiting Distinguished Professor, in Russell Studies and General. Fellow, All Souls, Oxford 1970, 1978, Clare Hall, Cambridge 1973.
President Australian Academy, of Humanities 1974-1977. Correspondent Fellow, British Academy. Foreign Fellow, American Academy, of Arts and Sciences, Royal Danish Academy, of Arts and Letters.
Honorary D. Litt. (Sydney, McMaster).
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Author: Ralph Cudworth, 1951, Hume's Intentions, 1952, A Hundred Years of Philosophy, 1957, Philosophical Reasoning, 1961, The Perfectibility of Man, 1970, Man's Responsibility for Nature, 1974, Science and its Critics, 1978, The Philosophy of Teaching, 1980, The Limits of Government, 1981, Recent Philosophers, 1985, Serious Art, 1991, Memoirs of a Semi-Detached Australian, 1997.
Board directors Elizabethan Theatre Trust, Sydney, 1956-1980, International Council on Future of Universities, New York City, 1978-1983. Member Interim Council on Science and Technology, Canberra, 1975-1977. Fellow Australian Academy Humanities (president 1974-1977), Australian Academy Social Sciences, British Academy (correspondent).
Member American Academy Arts and Sciences (foreign honorary), Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Institute International Philosophy, University House (deputy master).
Theatre, film, travel, walking.
Married Annie Doris Sumner, 1936. Children: Helen Katherine Hoffmann, Diana Margaret Millar.