Allen Phillips Griffiths

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Allen Phillips Griffiths (11 June 1927 - 1 December 2014)^[1][2] was a Welsh professor and snuff enthusiast.^[3][4]

Life[]

Griffiths was born in Llandaff, in Cardiff, Wales. He studied at University College, Cardiff until 1943. After the Second World War he enlisted in military service. During his time in the military, he was stationed in the Middle East. Afterwards receiving a B.Phil at Oxford.^[2][4] He first taught at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, before moving to Birkbeck College in 1957.^[2]

In 1964, Griffiths became a founding professor of the University of Warwick. At the time, he was the youngest professor of philosophy in the UK.^[2]

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Works[]

• Of liberty (1983)
• (ed.) Philosophy and literature (1984)
• (ed.) A.J. Ayer: Memorial Essays (1992)
• Impulse to Philosophise (1993)
• Philosophy, psychology and psychiatry (1994)
• Philosophy and practice (2011)

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• "Do we know what knowing is?" (video) Godfrey Vesey introduces a discussion between Martha Kneale and Griffiths as to whether knowledge can be satisfactorily defined as justified true belief (Open University, 1972).