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

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and a biographer of John Locke. He was born in

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and educated at Saltburn Primary School, Sir William Turner's Grammar School,

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(Philosophy) and then

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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. Cambridge University Press requested Woolhouse write a biography of Locke, the last major biography being

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'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).

Notes

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