He died 8 April 2010 and is survived by his wife, Annis Harty, and two daughters. However, in 2007, he published There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind, about which debate still rages.įlew was a vice-president of the Rationalist Press Association, chairman of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society and a fellow of the Academy of Humanism. In the 21st century he at first held fast to his beliefs despite much discussion fueled by Internet debate. He gave the 1986–1987 Gifford Lectures, titled 'The Logic of Mortality,' at the University of St Andrews.ĭuring his career Flew held positions as vice-president of the Rationalist Press Association, chairman of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society and a fellow of the Academy of Humanism.Īlthough Flew’s work dealt with many subjects, such as evolutionary ethics, psychic phenomena, logic, education, crime and egalitarianism, he was most noted for his atheism, which he said began in his teens. After retirement in 1982, Flew took up a part-time post at York University, Toronto. He became a professor of philosophy at the University College of North Staffordshire (Keele University) in 1954, and moved to the University of Reading in 1983. Lewis.Īfter two years as a lecturer in philosophy at Christ Church, Oxford, he moved to the University of Aberdeen where he was a lecturer in moral philosophy (1950-1954). He did his PhD research under Gilbert Ryle and regularly debated with C. Flew was awarded the university’s John Locke Scholarship in Mental Philosophy in 1948. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Air Force, studying Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies from 1942 to 1943, before joining RAF Intelligence until the cessation of hostilities in 1945.Īfter the war he studied philosophy, winning a scholarship to St John's College, Oxford, and graduating with a first in greats. Philosopher Antony Flew was born 11 February 1923, the son of a Methodist minister.

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