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Peter Geach
FBA
Geach in 1990
Born
Peter Thomas Geach

(1916-03-29)29 March 1916
Chelsea, London, England
Died21 December 2013(2013-12-21) (aged 97)
Cambridge, England
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford
Spouse
G. E. M. Anscombe
(m. 1941; died 2001)
[1]
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytical Thomism
Institutions
  • University of Birmingham
  • University of Leeds
Main interests
  • History of philosophy
  • Philosophical logic
  • Philosophy of religion
Notable ideas
  • Analytical Thomism
  • Cambridge change
  • Frege–Geach problem
  • omnipotence paradox

Peter Thomas Geach[a] FBA (29 March 1916 – 21 December 2013) was a British philosopher who was Professor of Logic at the University of Leeds. His areas of interest were philosophical logic, ethics, history of philosophy, philosophy of religion and the theory of identity.

  1. ^ Haldane 2000, p. 1019.


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Socinianism

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