Richard Cumberland is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Richard Cumberland as English philosopher, and Bishop of Peterborough (1631–1718).
Richard Cumberland was born at London in 1631. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He studied at Magdalene College and St Paul's School.
This was the century in which philosophy separated itself from theology and began to ask what could be known with certainty.
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.
Richard Cumberland died in 1718, aged 87. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
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