Peter Geach

Tags: Philosopher.

Peter Thomas Geach MA FBA (/ˈɡiːtʃ/; 29 March 1916 – 21 December 2013) was a British philosopher. His areas of interest were the history of philosophy philosophical logic and the theory of identity.Geach was educated at Clifton College and at Balliol College Oxford. He taught at the University of Birmingham from 1951 until 1966 when he was appointed Professor of Logic in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Leeds.

birth date

1916-03-29

birth place

Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea

death date

2013-12-21

era

20th-century philosophy

influenced

Anthony Kenny, Alasdair MacIntyre, G. E. M. Anscombe

influenced by

Aristotle, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Thomas Aquinas, Gottlob Frege

main interest

Philosophy of religion, Philosophical logic, History of philosophy

notableIdea

Analytical Thomism, Omnipotence paradox

philosophicalSchool

Analytic philosophy

region

Western philosophy