Philosopher
Richard Price
Overview
Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a British moral philosopher, Nonconformist minister and mathematician. He was also a political reformer and pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the French and American Revolutions. He was well-connected and fostered communication between many people, including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington, Mirabeau and the Marquis de Condorcet. According to the historian John Davies, Price was "the greatest Welsh thinker of all time".
Born in Llangeinor, near Bridgend, Wales, Price spent most of his adult life as minister of Newington Green Unitarian Church, then on the outskirts of London. He edited, published and developed the Bayes–Price theorem and the field of actuarial science. He also wrote on issues of demography and finance, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Philosophers who discussed Richard Price
- Edmund Burke
- Kitarō Nishida
- William Wollaston
- William Godwin
- Dugald Stewart
- Adam Ferguson
- Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)
- The Age of Reason
- Johannes Nikolaus Tetens
Ideas Richard Price discusses
- Edmund Burke
- John Adams
- Moral sense theory
- French Revolution
- Anglicanism
- Glorious Revolution
- Arianism
- William Godwin
- Alexander Bain (philosopher)
- Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Immanuel Kant
- Panaetius
- Joseph Butler
- Smallpox
- Dugald Stewart
- Adam Ferguson
- London
- Lisbon
- Adam Smith
- Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)
- Samuel Clarke
- Metaphysics
- American Revolution
- Mary Wollstonecraft
Place in the tradition
Part of Liberalism.