Roger Stuart Woolhouse (15 February 1940 – 24 September 2011) was an English philosopher, an expert on

empiricism In philosophy, empiricism is an epistemological view which holds that true knowledge or justification comes only or primarily from sensory experience and empirical evidence. It is one of several competing views within epistemology, along ...

and

rationalism In philosophy, rationalism is the Epistemology, epistemological view that "regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge" or "the position that reason has precedence over other ways of acquiring knowledge", often in contrast to ot ...

and a biographer of

John Locke John Locke (; 29 August 1632 (Old Style and New Style dates, O.S.) – 28 October 1704 (Old Style and New Style dates, O.S.)) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thi ...

. He was born in Wath-upon-Dearne and educated at Saltburn Primary School, Sir William Turner's Grammar School,

London University The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degr ...

(Philosophy) and then Selwyn College, Cambridge for his Doctorate. From 1969 until his retirement in 2001, Woolhouse worked in the Department of Philosophy at the

University of York The University of York (abbreviated as or ''York'' for Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a public Collegiate university, collegiate research university in York, England. Established in 1963, the university has expanded to more than thir ...

. 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). * *''Starting with Leibniz'' (Continuum, 2010).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Woolhouse, Roger 1940 births 2011 deaths 20th-century English philosophers Academics of Cardiff University Academics of the University of York Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge Alumni of University College London People from Wath upon Dearne