Andrew Collier (philosopher)

Andrew Collier (1944 – 2014) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton. He is known for his work on objectivity in the social sciences.[1]

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.[2]

A festschrift was published in Collier's honor, edited by Margaret Archer and William Outhwaite, entitled Defending Objectivity (2007).[3]

Collier lived with cancer for more than a decade and died on 3 July 2014.[4]

Publications
  • R. D. Laing: The Philosophy and Politics of Psychotherapy (1971)
  • Scientific Realism and Socialist Thought (1988)
  • Socialist Reasoning: An Enquiry into the Political Philosophy of Scientific Socialism (1990)
  • Critical Realism: An Introduction to Roy Bhaskar’s Philosophy (1994)
  • Being and Worth (1999)
  • Christianity and Marxism: A Philosophical Contribution to their Reconciliation (2001)
  • On Christian Belief: A Defence of a Cognitive Conception of Religious Belief in a Christian Context (2003)
  • In Defence of Objectivity (2003)
  • Transcendence: Critical Realism and God (with Margaret Archer and Doug Porpora, 2004)
  • Marx (2004)
gollark: Some offense, but it's not like it takes much knowledge and thought about AI to go "hmm, what if hyperadvanced self-learning AI thing". If it was that easy, people would already have done it and probably taken over the world.
gollark: Basically, your simple English description of what you want implicitly assumes a bunch of human knowledge - *specialized expert* human knowledge, even - which would require vast amounts of difficult development to get in an AI.
gollark: Oh, and if it's a paper it might not even come with code or it might be really awful code, yes.
gollark: The code/paper you find isn't going to be conveniently usable by just downloading it and copypasting it into your AI's code or something. You'll probably have to actually understand how it works, yet another unfathomable general intelligence task, figure out how it interfaces with the rest of the code or if it can even be used together at all, and possibly rewrite it entirely to fit with what you need.
gollark: "Pluck it out" is also easy to say, but it's actually even harder.

References
  1. O’Neill, John (2015). "In Memoriam: Andrew Collier 1944–2014". Journal of Critical Realism. 14 (1): 3–6. doi:10.1179/1476743014Z.00000000049.
  2. Collier, Andrew; Calder, Gideon (21 April 2015). "Values and Ontology". Journal of Critical Realism. 8 (1): 63–90. doi:10.1558/jocr.v8i1.63.
  3. Archer, Margaret; Outhwaite, William, eds. (2004). Defending Objectivity: Essays in Honour of Andrew Collier. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781134303977.
  4. Outhwaite, William (2014). "Realism and moral being: Andrew Collier, 1944–2014". Radical Philosophy (187): 67–68.
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