Roger Stuart Woolhouse (1940–2011) was an English philosopher, an expert on

empiricism In philosophy, empiricism is an epistemological theory that holds that knowledge or justification comes only or primarily from sensory experience. It is one of several views within epistemology, along with rationalism and skepticism. Empir ...

and rationalism and a biographer of

John Locke John Locke (; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism ...

. He was born in Wath-upon-Dearne and educated at Saltburn Primary School, Sir William Turner's Grammar School, London University (Philosophy) and then Selwyn College, Cambridge for his Doctorate.Obituary
at ''The Yorkshire Post''. From 1969 until his retirement in 2001, Woolhouse worked in the Department of Philosophy at the

University of York , mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £8.0 million , budget = £403.6 million , chancellor = Heather Melville , vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery , students ...

. Cambridge University Press requested Woolhouse write a biography of Locke, the last major biography being Maurice Cranston's 1957 work. Woolhouse's biography appeared in 2007. After his death, York's Department of Philosophy founded the Roger Woolhouse Prize, an annual £500 prize awarded to MA Philosophy students.Roger Woolhouse Prize
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Works

*''Locke'' (Prentice Hall / Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1984). *''The Empiricists'' (Oxford University Press, 1988). *''Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz: The Concept of Substance in Seventeenth Century Metaphysics'' (Routledge, 1993). *''Locke: A Biography'' (Cambridge University Press, 2007). *''Starting with Leibniz'' (Continuum, 2010).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Woolhouse, Roger 1940 births 2011 deaths English philosophers Academics of the University of York