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  1. Books. Descartes: A Study of His Philosophy. Anthony Kenny. St. Augustine's Press, 2009 - Philosophy - 242 pages. “Kenny’s Descartes is a notably good and important book. He says it is ‘designed to help undergraduate and graduate students in understanding Descartes’ philosophy.’. The book concentrates on Descartes’ epistemology ...

  2. Sir Anthony Kenny FBA was born in Liverpool in 1931, and was educated at Upholland College and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. From 1963 to 1989 he was at Balliol College, Oxford, first as Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, and then as Master.

  3. Oxford University Press, 2008 - Philosophy - 347 pages. Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the development of philosophy in the modern world, from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Alongside (and intertwined with) extraordinary scientific advances, cultural changes, and political upheavals, the last two ...

  4. Sir Anthony Kenny - 'Humanism vs Anthropomorphism', delivered at the Ian Ramsey Centre - Humane Philosophy Project 2014-2015 Seminar. Chaired by Ralph Weir and Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode. Anthropomorphism (applying to non-humans predicates appropriate only to human beings) may seem an ally of humanism: in fact it is its enemy.

  5. Anthony Kenny's masterful introduction gives an account of St Thomas's life and works, sketching the major concepts of Aquinas's metaphysical system including his doctrine of Being, with the last chapter devoted to his philosophy of mind. This book is intended for students of theology and philosophy - particularly medieval or metaphysical.

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  6. Mar 26, 2003 · Action, Emotion and Will was first published in 1963, when it was one of the first books to provoke serious interest in the emotions and philosophy of human action. Almost forty years on, Anthony Kenny's account of action and emotion is still essential reading for anyone interested in these topics. The first part of the book takes an historical ...

  7. Sir Anthony Kenny has been President of the British Academy, and Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford. He has written many books on the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of religion, and the history of philosophy, including both scholarly and popular works on Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, and Wittgenstein.

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