Alan R. White

Alan Richard White (9 October 1922 – 23 February 1992) was an ordinary language philosopher who worked mainly in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and legal philosophy.

Biography

Alan R. White (as he was usually cited) was born in Toronto on 9 October 1922, the elder of two children born to George Albert White and Jean Gabriel White (née Kingston).[1]

He was educated at Middleton College. Cork, and at Trinity College, Dublin where he served as President of the University Philosophical Society.[2][3] Obtaining firsts in classics and mental and moral philosophy at Trinity he is said to have scored over 100 per cent in his exams by taking them in Gaelic, (for which extra credit was supposedly given).[2] White completed his PhD at the University of London under the supervision of A.J. Ayer.[2]

After briefly serving as a deputy lecturer at Trinity, Dublin, White was appointed as an assistant lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hull in 1946. At the time the departmental staff consisted solely of himself and Professor T.E. Jessop. White succeeded Jessop to become the second Ferens Professor of Philosophy at Hull in 1961, a post he retained until his retirement in 1989. He was also a Visiting Professor at a number of American universities and served as Secretary, and then president, of the Mind Association and as President of the Aristotelian Society.[2][3]

White retired to Nottingham, where he had been appointed Special Professor in 1986.[3] He died at his home in Sherwood, Nottingham on 23 February 1992.[1]

His papers are held at Hull University Archives.[3]

A volume of White's selected papers, as edited by Constantine Sandis (who credits White's Grounds of Liability as "a huge influence")[4] with John Preston and David Dolby is forthcoming.[5][6]

Works

Authored Books

  • G.E. Moore: a Critical Exposition, Oxford: Blackwell (1958)[7][8]
  • Attention, Oxford: Blackwell (1964
  • The Philosophy of Mind, New York: Random House (1967)[9]
  • Truth, London: Macmillan (1970)[10]
  • Modal Thinking, Ithaca: Cornell University Press (1975)[11][12]
  • The Nature of Knowledge, Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield (1982)
  • Rights, Oxford: Clarendon-Press (1984)[13][14]
  • Grounds of Liability: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press (1985)[15]
  • Methods of Metaphysics, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1987)
  • The Language of Imagination (1990)
  • Misleading Cases, Oxford: Clarendon Press (1991)[16]
  • Attempting the Impossible in Liability and Responsibility. New York: Cambridge University Press (1991)

Edited Books

Select Papers

A more complete listing of White's publications can be found at PhilPapers.[18]

References

  1. Gilbert, Paul (2004). "White, Alan Richard (1922–1992), philosopher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65664. Retrieved 2019-09-30. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. "White, Alan Richard (1922—92)".(2005) in Brown, Stuart (ed.) Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers. A&C Black. p. 1114- ISBN 9781843710967, republished in The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy entry online at Oxford Reference Online [requires subscription]
  3. "Papers of Professor Alan Richard White - Archives Hub". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  4. "25 Constantine Sandis (Hertfordshire)". Philosophy of Action. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  5. "JMP Work in Progress". www.reading.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  6. "John Preston (home page)". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  7. Urmson, J. O. (1961-04-01). "Book Reviews". The Philosophical Quarterly. 11 (43): 190–191. doi:10.2307/2960133. ISSN 0031-8094. Full Preview
  8. Luce, A. A. (1959). "Review of G. E. Moore. A Critical Exposition". Hermathena (93): 93–98. ISSN 0018-0750. JSTOR 23039142.
  9. Palmer, Anthony (1968). "The Philosophy of Mind. By Alan R. White. (Random House Studies in Philosophy, 1967. Pp. 178. Price 16s.)". Philosophy. 43 (164): 172–172. doi:10.1017/S0031819100009098. ISSN 1469-817X.Full Preview
  10. Largeault, J. (1975). "Review of Truth". Archives de Philosophie. 38 (3): 521–522. ISSN 0003-9632. JSTOR 43033750.
  11. Hanson, William H. (1977). "Review of Modal Thinking". The Journal of Symbolic Logic. 42 (3): 428–430. doi:10.2307/2272877. ISSN 0022-4812. JSTOR 2272877.
  12. McQueen, Donald (1977). "Review of Modal Thinking". Philosophy. 52 (199): 111–113. doi:10.1017/S003181910002163X. ISSN 0031-8191. JSTOR 3749953.
  13. Tettenborn, Andrew (1985). "Review of Rights". The Cambridge Law Journal. 44 (1): 174–176. doi:10.1017/S0008197300114680. ISSN 0008-1973. JSTOR 4506725.
  14. Bowie, Norman E. (1986). "Review of Rights". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 47 (1): 165–168. doi:10.2307/2107735. ISSN 0031-8205. JSTOR 2107735.
  15. Tettenborn, Andrew (1986). "Review of Grounds of Liability. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law". The Cambridge Law Journal. 45 (1): 151–152. doi:10.1017/S0008197300115946. ISSN 0008-1973. JSTOR 4506846.
  16. Glazebrook, P. R. (1991). "Review of Misleading Cases". The Cambridge Law Journal. 50 (3): 542–544. doi:10.1017/S0008197300016330. ISSN 0008-1973. JSTOR 4507593.
    • free to read online at JSTOR with registration
  17. "Works by White, Alan R. - PhilPapers". philpapers.org. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
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