Philosopher
Anthony Kenny
Overview
Sir Anthony John Patrick Kenny (16 March 1931 – 3 August 2026) was a British philosopher whose interests lay in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of Wittgenstein of whose literary estate he was an executor. With Peter Geach, he 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 was a president of the British Academy and the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
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Philosophers who discussed Anthony Kenny
- Kai Nielsen (philosopher)
- Anthony Quinton
- Christopher Hitchens
- David Bentley Hart
- René Descartes
- Peter Geach
- John Cottingham
- Gottlob Frege
- Rush Rhees
Ideas Anthony Kenny discusses
- Foundationalism
- Ancient philosophy
- Philosophy
- Western philosophy
- Analytic philosophy
- Internet Archive
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Emeritus
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Thomas Aquinas
- Philosophy of religion
- University of Edinburgh
- Rome
- René Descartes
- Richard Dawkins
- University of Cambridge
- British Academy
- Stanford University
- Peter Geach
- University of Michigan
- University of Oxford
- University of Chicago
- Gifford Lectures
- Knight Bachelor
Place in the tradition
Part of Agnosticism.