Bernard Mayo (1921 – 14 February 2000) was an English

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

. He worked at

University of Birmingham The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university in Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as ...

until 1968, when he joined

University of St. Andrews The University of St Andrews (, ; abbreviated as St And in post-nominals) is a public university in St Andrews, Scotland. It is the oldest of the four ancient universities of Scotland and, following the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, t ...

as professor of

moral philosophy Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches include normative ethics, applied et ...

, from which he retired in 1983. He was editor of

Analysis Analysis (: analyses) is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (38 ...

(1956–65) and

The Philosophical Quarterly ''The Philosophical Quarterly'' is a quarterly academic journal of philosophy established in 1950 and published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Scots Philosophical Club and the University of St Andrews. Since 2014 its publisher is Oxford Acade ...

(1973–80).

Books

*''Logic of personality'' (

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, 1952) *''Ethics and the moral life'' (

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and

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, 1958) *''The philosophy of right and wrong'' (

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, 1986)

Publications

*''Rules' of Language'',

Philosophical Studies ''Philosophical Studies'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal for philosophy in the analytic tradition. The journal is devoted to the publication of papers in exclusively analytic philosophy and welcomes papers applying formal techniques to phil ...

, vol. 2, pp. 1–11, 1951 *''Ethics and Moral Controversy'',

, Vol. 4, No. 14 (Jan., 1954), pp. 1–14 *''Poetry, Language and Communication'',

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, Vol. 29, No. 109 (Apr., 1954), pp. 131–145 *''Events and Language'', in ''Philosophy and Analysis'' by Margaret MacDonald, 1954 *''Professor

J. J. C. Smart John Jamieson Carswell Smart (16 September 1920 – 6 October 2012) was a British-Australian philosopher who was appointed as an Emeritus Professor by the Australian National University. He worked in the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of sci ...

on temporal asymmetry'',

Australasian Journal of Philosophy The ''Australasian Journal of Philosophy'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of philosophy and "one of the oldest English-language philosophy journals in the world". It was established in 1923 as ''The Australasian Journal of Psychol ...

, Volume 33, Issue 1 May 1955, pp 38–44 *''The Incongruity of Counterparts'',

Philosophy of Science Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. Amongst its central questions are the difference between science and non-science, the reliability of scientific theories, ...

, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Apr., 1958), pp. 109–115 *''Objects, Events, and Complementarity'',

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, Vol. 70, No. 3, pp. 340–361, July 1961 *''The Open Future'',

Mind The mind is that which thinks, feels, perceives, imagines, remembers, and wills. It covers the totality of mental phenomena, including both conscious processes, through which an individual is aware of external and internal circumstances ...

, vol. 71, 1962, pp. 1–14 *''A note on

J. L. Austin John Langshaw Austin (26 March 1911 – 8 February 1960) was an English philosopher of language and leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy, best known for developing the theory of speech acts. Austin pointed out that we use lan ...

's performative theory of knowledge'',

, vol. 14, no. 1–2, January, 1963 *''The Incoherence of Determinism'',

, Vol. 44, No. 168 (Apr., 1969), pp. 89–100 *''On the Keith Lehrer- Richard Taylor Analysis of 'Can'-Statements'',

, New Series, Vol. 77, No. 306 (Apr., 1968), pp. 271–278 Publication list is incomplete, based on a search on

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and

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References

20th-century English philosophers Academics of the University of Birmingham Academics of the University of St Andrews 1921 births 2000 deaths Alumni of the University of Birmingham {{UK-philosopher-stub