"And quite the fount of knowledge about obscure British philosophers two centuries dead."

Half a century later, Francis Bacon, the British philosopher of science, wrote that knowledge is power.

William Godwin was a British political philosopher, novelist, and journalist.

Jonathan Glover (born 1941) is a British philosopher known for his studies on ethics.

The British philosophers emphasized the moral sentiments, the spontaneous capacity to recognize another person's suffering and to feel it as one's own.

It was invented by a famous British philosopher.

John Broome (born 1947) is a British philosopher and economist.

There are indications that the James-type account is the more popular among those few contemporary British philosophers who have anything to say on the subject.

He was the first British philosopher to be awarded the Order of Merit.

Although there was opposition from Conservatives who complained about the political bias, the general public generally considered him the greatest British philosopher of the day.