John W. N. Watkins

English Philosopher of Science

John W. N. Watkins is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.

The record lists John W. N. Watkins as English Philosopher of Science.

John W. N. Watkins was born at England in 1924. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He studied at Yale University.

Twentieth-century philosophy was marked by war, exile and ideology; many of its central figures wrote in flight or under censorship.

His academic posts were held at London School of Economics and Political Science.

The recorded fields of work are philosophy.

A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.

That the work was done from United Kingdom matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.

John W. N. Watkins died in 1999, aged 75. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.

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