Colin Radford, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetColin Radford
philosopher
Date of Birth: 27-Feb-1935
Date of Death: 09-Apr-2001
Profession: philosopher
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Colin Radford
- Colin John Radford (27 February 1935 – 9 April 2001) was an English philosopher who worked primarily in aesthetics but had interests in a wide variety of philosophical topics.
- He is best known for describing the paradox of fiction in the 1975 essay "How Can We Be Moved by the Fate of Anna Karenina?" and developing the paradox in a number of subsequent essays.Radford was a pupil at Thornbury Grammar School, then studied at London School of Economics and the University of Bristol.
- He studied for a doctorate under Gilbert Ryle at Oxford before taking a position at the University of Kent, where he taught until his retirement in 1992.
- He was a visiting lecturer at the University of California , Berkeley, the University of Illinois, and Queensland University.
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