John Andrew Leslie (born August 2 1940) is a Canadian philosopher. He was educated at Wadham College Oxford earning his B.A. in English Literature in 1962 and his M.Litt. in Classics in 1968. He is currently Professor emeritus at the University of Guelph in Ontario Canada. In his book Universes Leslie describes a philosophical parable in which an individual survives a firing squad of fifty expert marksmen unscathed.
birth date
1940-08-02
era
Contemporary philosophy
main interest
Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of religion, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of science
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