Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton

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Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton (born 1925) is a British political and moral philosopher, metaphysician, and materialist philosopher of mind.

He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1975 to 1976.

In 1983, he was made a life peer as Baron Quinton, of Holywell in the City of Oxford and County of Oxfordshire.

To BBC Radio audiences, Anthony Quinton became well known as a presenter of the long-running Round Britain Quiz.

[edit] Writings

• The Nature of Things, (London, 1973)
• The Politics of Imperfection: The Religious and Secular Traditions of Conservative Thought in England from Hooker to Oakeshott
• Utilitarian Ethics
• From Wodehouse To Wittgenstein