Charlie Dunbar Broad

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Western Philosophy 20th-century philosophy
Name:	Charlie Dunbar (C.D.) Broad
Birth:	December 30, 1887
Death:	March 11, 1971
School/tradition:	Analytic philosophy
Main interests:	Metaphysics, Ethics, Philosophy of the Mind, Logic
Influences:	John Locke, William Ernest Johnson, Alfred North Whitehead, G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell
Influenced:	A. J. Ayer

Charlie Dunbar Broad (known as C.D. Broad) (30 December 1887 - 11 March 1971) was an English epistemologist, historian of philosophy, philosopher of science, moral philosopher, and writer on the philsophical aspects of psychical research. He was known for his thorough and dispassionate examinations of all conceivable arguments in such works as The Mind and Its Place in Nature (1925), Scientific Thought (1930) and Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy (1933).

Contents 1 Life 2 Timeline Summary 3 Books and Publications 4 External References 5 References

[edit] Life

He earned his professorship in philosophy at Cambridge in 1933.

[edit] Timeline Summary

Fellow of Trinity College: 1911
Assistant Lecturer and Lecturer at St Andrews University: 1911-20
Professor at Bristol University: 1920-23
College Lecturer at Trinity College: 1923-
Lecturer in Moral Science at Cambridge University: 1926-31
President of the Aristotelian Society: 1927-1928; 1954-1955.
Sidgwick Lecturer at Cambridge University: 1931-33
Knightsbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge University: 1933-53
President of the Society of Psychical Research: 1935 & 1958.

[edit] Books and Publications

• Perception, Physics, and Reality, London: Cambridge University Press, 1914.
• The Mind and Its Place in Nature, London: Kegan Paul, 1925.
• Ethics and the History of Philosophy, London: Routledge, 1952.

[edit] External References

Philosophical Alternatives from C. D. Broad

[edit] References

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd Edition, Volume 1, Ed. by Donald M. Borchert, Farmington Hills, MI: MacMillian Reference, 2006.