Oswald Hanfling
Oswald Hanfling (21 December 1927 – 25 October 2005) was an ordinary language philosopher who worked at the UK's Open University from 1970, until his retirement in 1993. At the Open University he, together with Stuart Brown and Godfrey Vesey, pioneered the teaching of philosophy to a higher-education standard via the means of BBC-broadcast radio and television programmes and written course books.
Oswald Hanfling | |
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Hanfling in 1972 | |
| Born | December 21, 1927 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | October 25, 2005 (aged 77) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Birkbeck College, University of London |
| Thesis | Pleasure, Pain and Emotion (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Hamlyn |
| Influences | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Philosophy |
| Institutions | Open University |
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