Anthony Kenny

British philosopher · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Born 1931 · age 95

Sir Anthony John Patrick Kenny is a British philosopher whose interests lie in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of Wittgenstein of whose literary estate he is an executor.

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2006“Philosophy is not a matter of knowledge; it is a matter of understanding, that is to say, of organizing what is known.”In their wordsWhat I Believe (2006), p. 14Read the whole statement

Aquinas MedalAward2003“The Five Ways fail […] principally because it is much more difficult than at first appears to separate them from their background in medieval cosmology.”In their wordsThe Five Ways: St. Thomas Aquinas' Proofs of God's Exustence, New York: Routledge (2003), pp. 3-4Read the whole statement

2002“The predicate of a sentence may tell you what kind of a thing something is, or how big it is, or where it is, or what is happening to it, and so on.”In their wordsAquinas on Being (2002), pp. 2-3Read the whole statement

1979“There is no reason why someone who is in doubt about the existence of God should not pray for help and guidance on this topic as in other matters.”In their wordsThe God of the Philosophers (1979), p. 129Read the whole statement

1931Born16 March 1931

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Aquinas Medal2006

Fellow of the British Academy

Knight Bachelor

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With Peter Geach, he has made a significant contribution to analytical Thomism, a movement whose aim is to present the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas in the style of analytic philosophy. He is a former president of the British Academy and the Royal Institute of Philosophy.

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