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Peter Thomas Geach FBA (29 March 1916 – 21 December 2013) was a British philosopher who was Professor of Logic at the University of Leeds. His areas of interest were philosophical logic, ethics, history of philosophy, philosophy of religion and the theory of identity.
The death of Peter Geach on 21st December 2013 at the age of 97 marks the passing of one of Anglophone philosophy's most distinctive and gifted figures. Geach published widely over seven decades in the areas of logic, language, mind, religion and ethics.
14 gen 2014 · Peter Geach, who has died aged 97, was a formidable logician and happened to be married to one of the 20th century’s leading English-language philosophers, Elizabeth Anscombe.
Peter Geach - 1977 - Cambridge University Press. Discusses four cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and courage, and the three theological virtues of faith, hope and charity. Claims moral precepts are absolute, utilitarianism is to be shunned, and sex apart from marriage is poison.
…the English Roman Catholic philosopher Peter Geach (1916–2013) proposed a radical solution that appears to have application beyond the theological problem regarding the transitivity of identity. According to Geach, there is no such thing as numerical identity; there are, instead, many relations of the form “is the same F as,”…
Polemical British Catholic logician and moral philosopher, who was professor at Leeds from 1966 to 1981. Geach's notable work on logical theory included Reference and Generality: An Examination of some Modern and Medieval Theories (1962) and Logic Matters (1972).
Peter Thomas Geach 1916–2013. e, Chelsea. He was the son of George Hender Geach, a Cambridge graduate working in the Indian Educational Service (IES), who later taught philosoph. at Lahore. George Geach was married to Eleonore Sgnonina, the daughter of a Polish civil engineer who had emigrated.
