Brian O'Shaughnessy (philosopher)
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Biography
He was born in Kew, a suburb of Melbourne in Australia, where his father was a doctor.[2] He studied at Xavier College and then attended Melbourne University, firstly studying engineering before changing to philosophy. He graduated in 1950 and then went to England to continue his studies at Oxford University.[3] He is buried in Highgate Cemetery in north London in the first section on the right immediately upon entering the Eastern Cemetery. His wife Edna O'Shaughnessy was buried with him in 2022.
Major works
- The Will: A Dual Aspect Theory (1980) Cambridge University Press Template:ISBN[4]
- Consciousness and the World (2000, Oxford University Press)
References
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- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- University of Melbourne alumni
- 20th-century Australian philosophers
- 21st-century Australian philosophers
- Academics of King's College London
- Australian people of Irish descent
- 1925 births
- 2010 deaths
- Burials at Highgate Cemetery
- Place of death missing
- Australian expatriate academics in the United Kingdom
- People from Kew, Victoria
- Academics from Melbourne
- People educated at Xavier College