Andrew Collier (philosopher)


Andrew Collier was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton. He is known for his work on objectivity in the social sciences.

Biography

Born in 1944 in Enfield, London, Collier studied at Bedford College, London and completed his M.Phil. on Sartre at the University College London in 1971. He taught philosophy at the University of Warwick, University of Sussex, and the Bangor University, before taking up a post at the University of Southampton in 1988.
A festschrift was published in Collier's honor, edited by Margaret Archer and William Outhwaite, entitled Defending Objectivity.
Collier lived with cancer for more than a decade and died on 3 July 2014.

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