Philosopher professor. Born Neville Court, Abbey Road. Married 4 times, twice to the same woman. At one stage he rejected atheism on the grounds that any discussion about religion was meaningless. Later he accepted that he was an atheist but then, shortly before his death, he had a near-death experience (well-named since he was) which seems to have very slightly dented his convictions. Died University College Hospital.
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Sir Alfred Ayer
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Sir Alfred Ayer
Westminster City Council Philosopher professor, Sir Alfred Ayer, 1910 - 1989...
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Jeremy Bentham
Born Spitalfields. A child prodigy, Bentham went to Oxford University aged 12. He chose not to practice law but to comment on it, institutions and society in general. He is associated with the doct...
5 memorials
Andres Bello
Born: Caracas, Venezuela.
Person, Nationalism, Philosophy, Politics & Administration, Venezuela
1 memorial
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosopher. Born Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein in Neuwaldeggerstrasse, Neuwaldegg, Vienna, into a very wealthy Jewish international family, but brought up a Catholic. Worked primarily in logic,...
1 memorial
Karl Marx
Born Trier, Germany (then Prussia). Died Maitland Park Road, Hampstead. Â Lived briefly in Brussels. From the Institute for Fiscal Studies: "Marx lived for a time after arriving in London in 1849 a...
Person, Philosophy, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Germany
6 memorials
Francis Hutcheson
Philosopher. Born Ulster of Scottish heritage. Studied in Glasgow. Best known for 'An Inquiry Into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue: In Two Treatises 1.Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmo...
1 memorial
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