biography
| name: |
Joad, C(yril) E(dwin) M(itchinson)
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pronunciation:
[johd]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1891–1953)
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| biography:
| Controversialist and popularizer of philosophy, born in Durham, Co Durham, NE England, UK. He studied at Oxford, became a civil servant (1914–30), then joined the philosophy department at Birkbeck College, London. He wrote 47 highly personal books, notably Guide to Philosophy (1936), and was a fashionable atheist until his last work, Recovery of Belief (1952). He is also remembered for his highly successful BBC Brains Trust intervention, ‘It all depends what you mean by ...’. |
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