Colin Radford
Colin Radford | |
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Born | Colin John Radford 27 February 1935 England |
Died | 9 April 2001 | (aged 66)
Alma mater | |
Notable work | "How Can We Be Moved by the Fate of Anna Karenina?" (1975) |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy |
Institutions | University of Kent |
Thesis | The Synthetic A Priori (1964) |
Doctoral advisor | Gilbert Ryle |
Main interests | Aesthetics |
Notable ideas | Paradox of fiction |
Colin John Radford (27 February 1935 – 9 April 2001) was an English
philosopher who worked primarily in aesthetics but had interests in a wide variety of philosophical topics. He is best known for describing the paradox of fiction in the 1975 essay "How Can We Be Moved by the Fate of Anna Karenina?" and developing the paradox in a number of subsequent essays.[1][2]
Radford was a pupil at
Queensland University.[3]
References
- ^ The Paradox of Fiction, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- ^ Colin Radford Remembered Archived 1 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Bob Sharpe, Aesthetics Online
- ^ Tony Skillen (22 May 2001). "Colin Radford". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 January 2014.