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'''David Conway''' (born 1947) is a British academic philosopher who has written several books on philosophy and politics. He has been described as "a classical liberal who thinks nations are essential".{{sfnp|Lester|2006}}

Conway grew up in [[London]], read Philosophy as an undergraduate at [[Cambridge University]] in the 1960s and went on to obtain his doctorate in Philosophy from [[University College London]]. He taught at [[Middlesex University]] for over thirty years, where he was Professor of Philosophy. He subsequently worked at [[Roehampton University]] as a senior research fellow in Theology and Religious Studies. Conway then worked for [[Civitas (think tank)|CIVITAS]], an independent British [[think tank]], as a senior research fellow.<ref>Author biography from ''Liberal Education and the National Curriculum'', p.&nbsp;vi.</ref><ref>Roehampton affiliation as listed in [http://studentzone.roehampton.ac.uk/studentnews/readnews.asp?id=189&cc=277407 Theology and Religious Studies Research Seminar Programme, Spring Semester 2003]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Student News, Roehampton University, retrieved 2016-06-11.</ref>

==Bibliography==
* ''A Farewell to Marx: An Outline and Appraisal of His Theories'' (Penguin Books, 1987)<ref>Reviewed by {{citation
 | last = Gordon | first = David
 | editor1-last = Rothbard | editor1-first = Murray N.
 | editor2-last = Block | editor2-first = Walter
 | contribution = A Farewell to Marx: An Outline and Appraisal of His Theories
 | contribution-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=803SdilsIqcC&pg=PA234
 | doi = 10.1007/978-94-017-3454-7_11
 | isbn = 978-94-017-3456-1
 | pages = 234–240
 | publisher = Kluwer Academic Publishers
 | title = The Review of Austrian Economics
 | volume = 4
 | year = 1990}}.</ref>
* ''Classical Liberalism: The Unvanquished Ideal'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 1995)<ref>Reviewed by {{citation
 | last = Archard | first = David
 | department = New Books
 | doi = 10.1017/s0031819100053560
 | issue = 278
 | journal = [[Philosophy (journal)|Philosophy]]
 | page = 628
 | title = Classical Liberalism: The Unvanquished Ideal by David Conway
 | volume = 71
 | year = 1996}}.</ref><ref>Reviewed by {{citation
 | last = Glass | first = James M.
 | department = Book Reviews: Political Theory
 | doi = 10.2307/2945857
 | issue = 4
 | pages = 888–890
 | journal = [[American Political Science Review]]
 | title = Classical Liberalism: The Unvanquished Ideal, and Liberty for the Twentieth-first Century: Contemporary Libertarian Thought
 | volume = 90
 | year = 1996| jstor = 2945857
 }}.</ref>
* ''Free-Market Feminism'' (Institute of Economic Affairs, 1998)
* ''The Rediscovery of Wisdom: From Here to Antiquity in Quest of ‘Sophia’'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000)<ref>Reviewed by {{citation
 | last = Flew | first = Antony | authorlink = Antony Flew
 | issue = 295
 | journal = [[Philosophy (journal)|Philosophy]]
 | jstor = 3752184
 | pages = 164–167
 | title = The Rediscovery of Wisdom by David Conway
 | volume = 76
 | year = 2001| doi = 10.1017/S0031819101230113 }}.</ref>
* ''In Defence of the Realm: The Place of Nations in Classical Liberalism'' (Ashgate Publishing Group, 2004)<ref>Reviewed by {{citation
 | last = Schwarzmantel | first = John
 | author-link=John Schwarzmantel
 | department = Book Reviews
 | doi = 10.1111/j.1354-5078.2005.214_1.x
 | issue = 3
 | journal = [[Nations and Nationalism (journal)|Nations and Nationalism]]
 | pages = 463–466
 | title = In Defence of the Realm: the Place of Nations in Classical Liberalism
 | volume = 11
 | year = 2005}}.</ref><ref>Reviewed by {{citation
 | last = Lester | first = J. C. 
 | issue = 3
 | journal = [[Journal of Libertarian Studies]]
 | page = 81
 | title = In Defence of the Realm: the Place of Nations in Classical Liberalism
 | url = https://mises.org/library/defence-realm-place-nations-classical-liberalism-david-conway
 | volume = 20
 | year = 2006}}.</ref>
* ''A Nation of Immigrants?'' (CIVITAS, 2007)
* ''Liberal Education and the National Curriculum'' (CIVITAS, 2010)<ref>{{citation|title=National curriculum being 'dumbed down'|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|first=Graeme|last=Paton|date=4 January 2010|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/6927322/National-curriculum-being-dumbed-down.html}}.</ref>
* ''With Friends Like These: Why Britain Should Leave the EU – And How'' (CIVITAS, 2014)
* Encyclopedia article – {{cite encyclopedia|editor-first=Ronald |editor-last=Hamowy |editor-link=Ronald Hamowy |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism |chapter= Liberalism, Classical|pages = 295–98 |year=2008 |publisher= [[SAGE Publications]], [[Cato Institute]] |location= Thousand Oaks, CA |isbn= 978-1-4129-6580-4 |oclc=750831024| lccn = 2008009151 |doi=10.4135/9781412965811.n179 }}

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