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institution1096–present

Oxford University

Disciplines:
philosophy
higher education
ancient history/classics
research

Summary

British research university — the oldest in the English-speaking world — whose philosophy and classics departments (the PPE degree, the greats curriculum) have trained an enormous proportion of British intellectual and political leadership.

Core Contribution

Houses the Oxford analytic philosophy tradition (Ryle, Austin, Ayer) and the classics curriculum that has been the backbone of British intellectual formation — providing the academic context for the ancient philosophy central to Jonathan Bi's work.

Historical Influences

Medieval scholasticism

Intellectual Lineage

Medieval English church

Contemporaries & Peers

Cambridge University

Minds Influenced

British philosophy and political cultureAnalytic philosophy tradition

Intellectual Posterity

Oxford analytic philosophy PPE degreeBodleian Library

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