Andrew Collier (1944 – 2014) was Professor of Philosophy at the

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. He is known for his work on objectivity in the social sciences.

Biography

Born in 1944 in

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, Collier studied at

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and completed his

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at the

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in 1971. He taught philosophy at the

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, and the Bangor University, before taking up a post at the

in 1988. A

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was published in Collier's honor, edited by Margaret Archer and William Outhwaite, entitled ''Defending Objectivity'' (2007). Collier lived with cancer for more than a decade and died on 3 July 2014.

Publications

* ''R. D. Laing: The Philosophy and Politics of Psychotherapy'' (1971) * ''Scientific Realism and Socialist Thought'' (1988) * ''Socialist Reasoning: An Enquiry into the Political Philosophy of Scientific Socialism'' (1990) * ''Critical Realism: An Introduction to Roy Bhaskar’s Philosophy'' (1994) * ''Being and Worth'' (1999) * ''Christianity and Marxism: A Philosophical Contribution to their Reconciliation'' (2001) * ''On Christian Belief: A Defence of a Cognitive Conception of Religious Belief in a Christian Context'' (2003) * ''In Defence of Objectivity'' (2003) * ''Transcendence: Critical Realism and God'' (with Margaret Archer and Doug Porpora, 2004) * ''Marx'' (2004)

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Collier, Andrew 1944 births 2014 deaths British philosophers Academics of the University of Southampton