About Roger Woolhouse
Lived 1940 – 2011 (aged 70–71). Roger Woolhouse was a philosopher.
Roger Stuart Woolhouse (15 February 1940 – 24 September 2011) was an English philosopher, an expert on empiricism and rationalism and a biographer of John Locke.
Biography He was born in Wath-upon-Dearne and educated at Saltburn Primary School, Sir William Turner's Grammar School, London University (philosophy) and then Selwyn College, Cambridge for his Doctorate.
From 1969 until his retirement in 2001, Woolhouse worked in the Department of Philosophy at the University of York.
Works Locke (Prentice Hall / Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1984). The Empiricists (Oxford University Press, 1988). Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz: The Concept of Substance in Seventeenth Century Metaphysics (Routledge, 1993).
Starting with Leibniz (Continuum, 2010).
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