Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton

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Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, The Rt. Hon. Lord Quinton, (born 1925) is a British political and moral philosopher, metaphysician, and materialist philosopher of mind.

He was of Trinity College, Oxford

He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1975 to 1976.

In 1983, he was made a life peer as Baron Quinton, of Holywell in the City of Oxford and County of Oxfordshire.

To BBC Radio audiences, Anthony Quinton became well known as a presenter of the long-running Round Britain Quiz.

[edit] His Shortest Definition of Philosophy

  The shortest definition, and it is quite a good one,
  is that philosophy is thinking about thinking.
  That brings out the generally second-order character of the subject,
  as reflective thought about particular kinds of thinking
  - formation of beliefs, claims to knowledge - about the world or large parts of it.
  The Oxford Companion to Philosophy ISBN 0-19-866132-0, p. 666

[edit] Writings

• The Nature of Things, (London, 1973)
• The Politics of Imperfection: The Religious and Secular Traditions of Conservative Thought in England from Hooker to Oakeshott
• Utilitarian Ethics
• From Wodehouse To Wittgenstein