John Randolph Lucas

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John Randolph Lucas (born June 18, 1929 - April 5, 2020 in Somerset ) was a British philosopher . He was known for his reception of Gödel's incompleteness theorem in the work On Minds, Machines and Gödel (about From awareness machines and Gödel ).

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John Lucas was educated at Winchester College between 1942 and 1947 . He moved to Balliol College at the University of Oxford , where he first studied mathematics and later early history and philosophy. He completed his bachelor's degree with honors in 1951 and his master's degree in 1954 in Oxford. He was research assistant and tutor at Merton College and Corpus Christi College between 1953 and 1956. From 1960 until his retirement he was a fellow and tutor at Merton College, Oxford. There he founded the Oxford Consumer Group and was chairman until 1963. His lectures include the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh 1971–1973, the Margaret Harris lecture at the University of Dundee (1981) and the Harry Jelema lecture at Calvin College in Grand Rapids , Michigan (1987). In 1988 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy . Between 1990 and 1996 he taught philosophy at Oxford. Between 1991 and 1993 he chaired the British Society for the Philosophy of Science .

Fonts

  • On Minds, Machines and Godel (1961)
  • Principles of Politics (as a publisher) (1966)
  • The Concept of Probability (1970)
  • The Freedom of the Will (1970)
  • The Nature of Mind , with AJ P Kenny , HC Longuet-Higgins and CH Waddington (1972)
  • The Development of Mind , with AJP Kenny, HC Longuet-Higgins and CH Waddington (1973)
  • A Treatise on Time and Space (1973)
  • Essays on Freedom and Grace (1976)
  • Democracy and Participation (1976)
  • Butler's Philosophy of Religion Vindicated (1978)
  • On Justice (1980)
  • Space, Time and Causality , with PE Hodgson (1985)
  • The Future (1989)
  • Spacetime and Electromagnetism , with PE Hodgson (1990)
  • Responsibility (1993)
  • Ethical Economics , with MR Griffiths (1997)
  • The Conceptual Roots of Mathematics (2000)
  • An Engagement with Plato's Republic , with BG Mitchell (2003)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary
personal data
SURNAME Lucas, John Randolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1929
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 2020
Place of death Somerset