Alan Richard White (9 October 1922 – 23 February 1992) was an

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who worked mainly in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and, latterly, legal philosophy.

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notes that he was "the most skillful developer of Rylean ... ideas in philosophical psychology" and that "if anyone surpassed

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in subtlety and refinement in the discrimination of grammatical differences, it was White."

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remarks that "during the heyday of '

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' no tongue practised it better."

Biography

Alan R. White (as he was usually cited) was born in

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on 9 October 1922, the elder of two sons born to Irish emigrants George Albert White (1888–1940), an estate agent from

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, and Jean Gabriel (Kingston) White (1888–1957). Also available for loan/preview via the

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in ''ODNB'' Vol.58 (2004) pp. 539-540 (Free registration required for volume loan.) Following their parents' separation in the early 1930s, both brothers moved with their Catholic mother when she returned to her hometown of

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(where she would work in the

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trade). There they would be educated in the Protestant faith of their father as boarders at Middleton College until the

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. White then transferred to (the Catholic) Presentation College, Cork, to prepare for entrance to

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. Despite his religious schooling, within only a few years White would become, as academic colleague Paul Gilbert notes, "a keen atheist." White was admitted to Trinity in 1941 with a junior

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and a sizarship in

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. During his time there he served as president of the

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.Matheson, David J.,
White, Alan Richard (1922—92)
.(2005), in ''The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy'' (2006) , He graduated in 1945 with firsts in both classics and 'mental and moral science' (philosophy) . He is said. reports David J. Matheson, to have scored over 100 per cent in some of his exams by taking them in Irish, for which extra credit was given. Other achievements during his time as an undergraduate included prizes for

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philosophy and

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.boxing. That he was also "pugnacious" outside the ring is attested to by Trinity philosopher A. A. Luce who records that the two had "many a battle" when White was a student in his class. Also through this time, which coincided with " The Emergency" of World War II, White served with the Local Defence Force in the 42nd Dublin Rifle Battalion. After graduation he remained at Trinity for a year to pursue further studies in classics and serve as a deputy lecturer in logic. In 1946 White was appointed as an assistant lecturer in the department of philosophy and psychology at the (then)

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, the departmental staff initially consisting solely of himself and Professor

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. White obtained this position on the recommendation of Luce who had contributed the "Inventory of the Manuscript Remains" to Jessop's ''A Bibliography of George Berkeley'' (1934). Prior to his arrival, Jessop had performed all the teaching duties for both philosophy and psychology. And though Hull's first dedicated psychology lecturer,

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, was appointed around the same time as White, the latter would himself also teach psychology as well as philosophy students long after the college acquired university status in 1954 and two separate departments were formed.

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records that, with the "connivance" of White, Westby. a fellow Rylean, succeeded in making Hull's psychology department "a center for a distinctive amalgam of ordinary language philosophy and behavioral psychology" in its early years. And Westby himself records White's "invaluable co-operation" in initiating and running the three-year "Philosophical Problems of the Sciences" course. The same having been intended to ensure psychology students appreciated "it is impossible to have a purely technical scientific language," a thorough examination of 'Mental' concepts being, as White notes, a necessary preparation "even for those whose chief interest is in the science of psychology." Within the philosophy department, White progressed to the positions of Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer, succeeding Jessop to become the second Ferens Professor of Philosophy in 1961 (a post he retained until his early retirement in 1985). At Hull he would also serve as dean of arts (1969–71) and as pro-vice-chancellor (1976–79). In 1958 White completed his PhD at the

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under the supervision of A.J. Ayer, with a thesis on "The Method of Analysis In the Philosophy of

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."Hull History Centre: Papers of Professor Alan Richard White
UDAW Papers of Professor Alan Richard White c.1945-1992 That same year would see the publication of the fruits of this research in his first book '' G.E. Moore: a Critical Exposition.'' White was a visiting professor at numerous American universities including the University of Maryland (1967–68, 1980),

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(1974),

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(1983), the

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(1986) and

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(1988). He also became known to the first generation of 'third year' students of philosophy at the

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, participating in a BBC televised discussion on perception that was annually repeated as part of the 'A303, Problems of philosophy' correspondence course which ran from 1973 until 1981. He also served as Secretary, and then president, of the

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and as president of the

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.Description of 'Papers of Professor Alan Richard White, c.1945-1992
Hull University Archives,

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. GB 50 U DAW' on the Archives Hub website

(date accessed :30/03/2021) White retired to

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, and was as appointed Special Professor of Philosophy at the university there in 1986. In the last decade of his life, as

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notes, White worked on jurisprudential problems pertaining to action, intention, voluntariness, negligence and recklessness. He died at his home in

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on 23 February 1992. His papers, previously held in the

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, are now housed at the

. White, as "a small man, dressed in a dark blue jacket and grey slacks, with a light blue shirt and a bow tie" who "speaks with a slight Irish accent" features (along with

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) as a participant in a fictive 2014 philosophical dialogue by P.M.S Hacker. A volume of White's selected papers, as edited by

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(who credits White's ''Grounds of Liability'' as "a huge influence") with John Preston and David Dolby is, as of 2025, still forthcoming.

Works

Authored books/monographs

*'' G.E. Moore: a Critical Exposition,'' Oxford: Blackwell (1958) *''Explaining Human Behaviour: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered in the University of Hull on 24 January 1962'' (1962). *''Attention,'' Oxford: Blackwell (1964) *''

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,'' New York: Random House (1967) *''

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,'' London: Macmillan (1970) *'' Modal Thinking,'' Ithaca: Cornell University Press (1975) *'' The Nature of Knowledge,'' Totowa,

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(1982) *''

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,'' Oxford: Clarendon-Press (1984) *'' Grounds of Liability: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law,'' Oxford: Oxford University Press (1985) *''Methods of Metaphysics,'' London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1987) *'' The Language of Imagination'' (1990) *''Misleading Cases,'' Oxford: Clarendon Press (1991)

Edited books

* '' The Philosophy of Action,'' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967 (Includes Introduction by White).

Papers/book chapters

1950s

"Conscience and Self-Love in Butler's Sermons"
''

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'', 27, No. 103. (Oct., 1952), pp. 329–344. *
Mr. Hartnack on Experience
''

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'', 14, No. 1. (Oct., 1953), p. 26.
"A Note on Meaning and Verification"
''Mind'', New Series, 63, No. 249 (Jan., 1954), pp. 66–69 * "The Ambiguity of Berkeley's 'Without the Mind'" '' Hermathena'', 83, 1954, pp.55–65.
"Mr Hampshire and Professor Ryle on dispositions"
''Analysis'', April 1954; 14: 111–113
"Professor A.D Ritchie on empirical problems"
''Analysis'', October 1955; 16: 14
"A Linguistic Approach to Berkeley's Philosophy"
''

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'', 16, No. 2 (Dec., 1955), pp. 172–187 *
The use of sentences"
''Analysis''. October 1956; 17: 1–4
"On Claiming to Know"
''The Philosophical Review'', 66, No. 2 (Apr., 1957), pp. 180–192. (Reprinted in

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(ed.), '' Knowledge and Belief'', pp 100–111 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967).
"Truth as Appraisal"
''

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'', New Series, 66, No. 263 (Jul., 1957), pp. 318–330
"Contrary-to-fact conditionals and logical impossibility"
''Analysis'', October 1957; 18: 14–16
"The Language of Motives"
''Mind'', New Series, 67, No. 266. (Apr., 1958), pp. 258–263.
"Moore on a Tautology"
''

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'', vol. 9, no. 1/2, (Jan.–Feb., 1958), pp. 1–4.
"Moore's appeal to Common Sense"
''Philosophy,'' Vol. 33, No. 126 (Jul., 1958), pp. 221–239
"Synonymous Expressions"
''

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'', vol. 8, no. 32, 1958, pp. 193–207.
"Belief Sentences"
''Mind'', vol. 67, no. 268, 1958, pp. 527–532.
"Keeping"
''Mind'', vol. 68, no. 272, Oct., 1959, pp. 545–547.
"The 'meaning' of Russell's theory of descriptions"
''Analysis'', October 1959; 20: 8–9

1960s

"Different kinds of heed concepts"
''Analysis,''. April 1960; 20: 112–116 * "G. E. Moore" in

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(ed.), ''The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy'' (London: Hutchinson, 1960). pp. 273–75.
"The Concept of Care"
''The Philosophical Quarterly'', Volume 10, Issue 40, July 1960, pp. 271–274,
"Inclination"
''Analysis'', December 1960; 21: 40–42
"Thinking that and Knowing that"
''The Philosophical Quarterly'', Volume 11, Issue 42, January 1961, pp. 68–73, * ."Meaning, Intentionality and Use" in: ''Atti del XII Congresso Internazionale di Filosofia (Venezia, 12–18 Settembre 1958)'' Vol. 4: pp. 377–384 (1961)
"Symposium: The Causal Theory of Perception"
(with

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), ''

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, Supplementary Volumes,'' Vol. 35 (1961), pp. 121–168. (Reprinted in G. J. Warnock (ed.), '' The Philosophy of Perception'', (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967)).
"Carelessness, Indifference and Recklessness"
''

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''. 24 (5): 592–595. (September 1961)
Attending and Noticing"
''Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society'', vol. 63, 1962, pp. 103–126
"Carelessness and Recklessness. A Rejoinder"
''The Modern Law Review'', 25, No. 4 (Jul., 1962), pp. 437–441
Achilles at the Shooting Gallery"
''Mind'', New Series, 72, No. 285 (Jan., 1963), pp. 141–142 * "The alleged ambiguity of 'see'" ''Analysis'',. October 1963; 24: 1–5
"The Notion of Interest"
''The Philosophical Quarterly'', 14, No. 57 (Oct., 1964), pp. 319–327 * "G. E. Moore" in D. J. O'Connor (ed.), '' A Critical History of Western Philosophy'' (Glencoe: Free Press, 1964), pp. 463–472.
"Mentioning The Unmentionable"
''Analysis'', March 1967; 27: 113–118 (Reprinted in K. T. Fann (ed.), ''A Symposium on J. L. Austin'', (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969) * "Negligence," in J. Macquarrie (ed.), '' A Dictionary of Christian Ethics'', (London: SCM Press, 1968), pp.226-7.
"The coherence theory of truth"
In ''

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'' (ed. Paul Edwards), London: Collier-Macmillan.1967 (reprinted in ''

'').
'"True" and "Truly"'
nbsp; ''Nous'' 2, No. 3 (Aug., 1968), pp. 247–251 * "On Being Obliged to Act" In (ed.) G.N.A. Vesey, '' The Human Agent, Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures Volume 1, 1966–7'', pp. 64–82 (Macmillan: 1968).
"Seeing What is not There"
In ''Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society'', 70, 1969/70, pp. 61–74.

1970s

* "What Might Have Been" in: '' Studies in the Theory of Knowledge,''

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Monograph Series, No. 4. ed.

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, Basil Blackwell, 1970
"Inference"
''The Philosophical Quarterly'', 21, No. 85 (Oct., 1971), pp. 289–302 *
Meaning and Implication"
''Analysis'', 32, No. 1. (Oct., 1971), pp. 26–30. *
The Propensity Theory of Probability"
''

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'', 23, No. 1 (Feb., 1972), pp. 35–43
"Mind-Brain Analogies"
'' Canadian Journal-of-Philosophy''. June 1972; 1: 457–472 * "What we Believe" in: '' Studies in the Philosophy of Mind,'' American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph Series no. 6, N. Rescher (ed.), Basil Blackwell. 1972; 6: 69–84
"The Inaugural Address: Certainty"
''Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes''. 46: (1972), pp. 1–18
"Responsibility, Liability, Excuses and Blame"
'' Studi Internazionali di Filosofia'', 5, 1973 *
Can What is Known and What is Believed be the Same?
''Hermathena'', 118, 1974, 139–146 * "Chairman's Remarks" in: Stuart C. Brown (ed.), ''Philosophy of Psychology'', (London: Macmillan, 1974), pp. 325–330 * "Needs and wants" ''Proceedings of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain''. July 1974; 8: 159–180 * "Trade Descriptions about the Future" ''Law Quarterly Review'', 90, 1974, 15–20. * "Conceptual Analysis" In (eds. Charles. J. Bontempo and S. Jack Odell), ''The Owl of Minerva'', New York : McGraw-Hill, 1975, pp. 103–117. * "Intention, Purpose, Foresight, and Desire" ''

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'', 92, 1976, pp. 569–590.
"Knowledge Without Conviction"
''Mind,'' New Series, 86, Issue 342, April 1977, pp. 224–236, collected in '' The Philosopher's Annual,'' Vol. 1 (1978) pp. 172–184 * "The Identity and time of the Actus Reus" ''Criminal Law Review'' 48, 1977 *"Dewey's Theory of Interest" in . Peters, R. S., (ed.), ''John Dewey Reconsidered'', (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977)
"Privilege"
''The Modern Law Review'', 41, No. 3 (May, 1978), pp. 299–311
"Acquiring and possessing knowledge"
''Analysis'', June 1978; 38: 129–131
"Austin as philosophical analyst"
''

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.'' 1978; 64: 379–399 * "Propositions and Sentences" pp. 22–33., "Belief as a Propositional Attitude" pp. 242–252., in G. W. Roberts (ed.), '' Bertrand Russell Memorial Volume,'' (Allen & Unwin, 1979),
"The Presidential Address: Shooting, killing, and fatally wounding"
''Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society'', 80, 1979–80, pp.1–15.

1980s/1990s

"Knowledge, Acquaintance, and Awareness"
In Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein (eds.), ''Midwest Studies in Philosophy'', Volume VI: The Foundations of Analytic Philosophy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1981), pp. 159–172.
"An intentional fallacy in epistemology"
Canadian Journal of Philosophy. September 1981; 11: 539–545
"Rights and claims"
(pp.315–336) an
"[Rights, Claims and Remedies
Reply to Professor MacCormick"">ights, Claims and Remedies">"[Rights, Claims and Remedies
Reply to Professor MacCormick"(pp.359–366) ''Law and Philosophy, 1, No. 2, Selection from the Proceedings of the Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference on the Philosophy of Law September 1979.'' (Aug., 1982),. Reprinted ([with concluding remarks] in ed. M.A. Stewart), ''Law, Morality, and Rights''. Reidel: Dordrecht, 1983, pp. 139–60 & 189–98.
"Doubting one's methods"
''Analysis''. June 1983; 43: 133–134 *"Fact in the Law" in: W. L. Twining (ed.) ''Facts in Law'' (Wiesbaden, 1983) 108–119
"Ways of speaking of imagination"
''Analysis''. June 1986; 46: 152–156
"Common sense: Moore and Wittgenstein"
''Revue-Internationale-de-Philosophie''. 1986; 40: 313–330
"Do claims imply rights?"
''Law-and-Philosophy''. December 1986; 5: 417–420
Visualising and Imagining Seeing"
''Analysis'', October 1987; 47: 221–224
'"By" and "By"'
''Analysis'', 47, No. 4. (Oct., 1987): 239–240. * "Discussions: 'Eine Vorstellung ist kein Bild'” ''Philosophical Investigations'', Vol. 11, Issue 2, April 1988, pp.151–155. * "Imagining and Pretending" ''Philosophical Investigations'', Vol. 11, Issue 4, October 1988, pp.300–314.
"As I remember…"
''

'', Volume 39, Issue 154, January 1989, pp.94–97
"Imaginary Imagining"
''Analysis,'' March 1989; 49: pp.81–83 * "Attempting the impossible". In R. Frey & C. Morris (Eds.), ''Liability and Responsibility: Essays in Law and Morals.'' Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law, pp.65–86. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1991
"Suspicion"
In: J. V. Canfield & S. G. Shanker (eds.), ''Wittgenstein's Intentions,'' (New York: Garland, 1992/3), pp. 81–86. A listing of White's publications that includes book reviews can be found at

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References

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"Perception"
- 1972 filmed discussion between Professors Alan R. White and Rodney J. Hirst hosted by Prof. Godfrey Vessey for

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‘A Brief History of the Department'
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Imagination and imagery"
Open University excerpts from ''The Language of Imagination,'' ch.12, pp.88–92
"Imagining and supposing"
- Open University excerpts from ''The Language of Imagination'', ch.16, pp.137–8, 141–2 {{DEFAULTSORT:White, Alan R. 1922 births 1992 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Alumni of the University of London Ordinary language philosophy 20th-century Irish philosophers Academics of the University of Hull People educated at Midleton College Canadian people of Irish descent Academics from Toronto Academics of the University of Nottingham 20th-century Canadian philosophers Canadian expatriates in Ireland Canadian expatriates in the United Kingdom