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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2040505_1,00.html

Sir Peter Strawson
November 23, 1919 - February 13, 2006
The Times Online

Oxford philosopher of matchless range who made incisive, influential contributions to problems of language and metaphysics
FEW scholars achieve lasting fame as dramatically as did the philosopher Sir Peter Strawson. By 1950 Strawson, then a Fellow of University College, Oxford, was already a respected tutor and a promising member of the group of younger Oxford dons whose careful attention to the workings of natural languages marked them out as “linguistic??� philosophers.

In July of that year, however, a mensis mirabilis, he published two extraordinary papers, which are still read and discussed more than 50 years later and which are prescribed to tyros as models of philosophical criticism.

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Found this posted on Bubbs - I actually haven’t heard of this man, but will definitely look into his works in the future.

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http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=22843

Ronald Nash, ‘bold and brilliant’ in defending the faith, dies
Mar 14, 2006
By Jeff Robinson
Baptist Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)–Theologian, philosopher and apologist Ronald H. Nash whom R. Albert Mohler Jr. remembers as a “brilliant and bold defender??� of the Christian faith, died March 10 at his home in Orlando, Fla., after a long illness. He was 69.

Nash taught theology and philosophy for four decades at three schools. He was chairman of the department of philosophy and religion and director of graduate studies in humanities at Western Kentucky University, where he was on faculty from 1964-91. He was a professor at Reformed Theological Seminary from 1991-2002 and at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1998-2005.

Mohler, Southern Seminary’s president, said Nash was “a man of ideas who believed that ideas really mattered … [and] that the right ideas were necessary in order for Christ’s church to be preserved.??� His legacy will endure through his many writings and through scores of students Nash taught, Mohler said.

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