RARE! Renowned Philosopher Antony Flew Hand Signed Biography Page

  

"Philosophy of Religion" Antony Flew Signed Biography Page. 11 February 1923 - 8 April 2010 was an. Schools of thought, Flew was most notable. For his work related to the.

During the course of his career he taught at the universities of. For much of his career Flew. Was known as a strong advocate of. He also criticised the idea of.

And the meaningfulness of the concept of God. In 2003 he was one of the signatories of. In 2004 he changed his position, and stated that he now believed in the. Shocking colleagues and fellow atheists. In order to further clarify his personal.

Concept of God, Flew openly made an allegiance to. More specifically a belief in the. And dismissed on many occasions a hypothetical. Conversion to Christianity, Islam or any other religion. He stated that in keeping his lifelong.

Commitment to go where the evidence leads, he now believed in the existence of. In 2007 a book outlining his. Reasons for changing his position. There is a God: How the World's Most. Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind.

Was written by Flew in. Collaboration with Roy Abraham Varghese. The book and Flew's conversion to.

Deism has been the subject of controversy, following an article in. Alleging that Flew's intellect had declined due. And that the book was primarily the work of. Varghese; Flew himself specifically denied this, stating that the book.

Represented his views; although he acknowledged that due to his age Varghese. Had done most of the actual work of writing the book.

He was also known for the. Fallacy, and for his debate on. He is said to have concluded by the.

Age of 15 that there was no God. During the Second World War he studied. After a period with the Inter-Services Topographical Department in.

Oxford, he was posted to. Flew achieved a first class degree in. He also won the John Locke Scholarship in. Mental Philosophy in the following year. Flew was a graduate student of. Both Flew and Ryle were among many Oxford philosophers. An early highlight in Flew's career. For a year, 1949-50, Flew was a. From 1950 to 1954 he was a lecturer at. From 1954 to 1971 he was a professor of philosophy at the.

Held a professorship at the University of Calgary, 1972-73. Between 1973 and 1983 he was professor of. This time, he developed one of his most famous arguments, the. Fallacy in his 1975 book.

Upon his retirement, Flew took up a half-time post for a. His name appears on letterheads into 1992 as a. And he held the same position in the.

Was one of the signatories to a letter in. On behalf of the Institute.

Statesmanship and calling for his government's success in defeating the. Married on 28 June 1952. Flew died on 8 April 2010.

While nursed in an Extended Care Facility in. Undergraduate, Flew attended the weekly meetings of.

To be "an eminently reasonable man" and by far the most. The sixty or more years following his founding of that club, he was not. Flew also criticised several of the other philosophical proofs for God's. Particular failed because it is based on the premise that the concept of Being.

Can be derived from the concept of Goodness. Only the scientific forms of. During the time of his involvement in. Wrote the article "Theology and Falsification", which argued that. Claims about God were merely vacuous where they could not be tested for truth.

Though initially published in an undergraduate journal, the. Article came to be widely reprinted and discussed. Flew was also critical of. In 1998, he debated Christian.