William de Burgh (philosopher)

William George de Burgh FBA (24 October 1866 – 27 August 1943) was a British philosopher. Educated at Winchester and Merton College, Oxford, he was a founding member of the University of Reading, where he became Professor of Philosophy in 1907. His works include Towards a Religious Philosophy, 1937; From Morality to Religion, 1938; and The Legacy of the Ancient World, 1923. A committed Anglican, he endeavoured to justify the revealed truth of the gospel in terms of rationalism, and thereby defend it against both the contemporary Protestant theological trend for anti-rationalism and the dominant philosophy of Logical Positivism.

References

• William George De Burgh also a link to From Morality to Religion, the Gifford Lectures for 1937-38, online text
• The legacy of Greece and Rome (1912) online
• Alan P.F. Sell, Four Philosophical Anglicans: W. G. De Burgh, W. R. Matthews, O. C. Quick, H. A. Hodges, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2010.
• T. M. Knox, ‘Burgh, William George de (1866–1943)’, rev. C. A. Creffield, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3276
• DE BURGH, William George’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Oct 2012 accessed 28 Dec 2012