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Mr David Braine

Honorary Research Fellow

Personal Details

E-mail:

d.braine@abdn.ac.uk

Biography

David Braine was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he held a Demyship in Natural Science from 1958-62 and graduated B.A. Hon. (History) in 1962 (M.A., 1965). From 1962-3 he studied philosophy under C.C.W. Taylor, Geoffrey Warnock and Patrick Gardiner, and as B.Phil. student under Gilbert Ryle, 1963-65 graduating B Phil.(Oxon) in 1965.

From 1965-89 he was a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, Honorary Lecturer 1989-2002, and Honorary Research Fellow since 2002.

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Selected Publications

Books:

Medical Ethics and Human Life, 1983, Palladio
The Reality of Time and the Existence of God, OUP, 1988
The Human Person: Animal and Spirit, Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1992, Duckworth, 1993, Univ. of Notre Dame Press, paperback edition, 1994
Ethics, Technology and Medicine, ed. (with Harry Lesser), Avebury,1988

Papers in Metaphysics:

'The Nature of Knowledge', Proc. Arist. Soc. 72, 1971-2
'Varieties of Necessity',Proc. Arist. Soc., Suppl. Vol.46,1972

Papers in the Philosophy of Mind:

Reply to David Cockburn's Discussion, Religious Studies, 1994
'The Active and Potential Intellects: Aquinas as a Philosopher in his own right' in Mind, Metaphysics, and Value in the Thomistic and Analytical Tradiitions, ed. John Haldane, Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2002

Papers in Ethics:

'Why Abortion?' in Light in the Darkness, 1981, Unity Press, Mowbray,
'Human animality: its relevance to the shape of ethics', in Ethics, Technology and Medicine, ed. David Braine and Harry Lesser, Avebury, 1988
Human life: its secular sacrosanctness' in Ethics, Technology and Medicine, ed. David
Braine and Harry Lesser, Avebury,1988
'The Human and the Inhuman in Medicine; Review of Issues concerning ReproductiveTechnology', inMoral Truth and Moral Tradition, ed. L. Gormally, Four Courts, Dublin, 1994

Papers in the Philosophy of Religion

'God, Eternity and Time', Evangelical Quarterly 66, 1994
'Cosmological Arguments', in Philosophy of Religion, ed. Brian Davies, Cassell, 1998.
'Philosophy and Cultures', Reflections on Fides et Ratio, no. 14, English trans.in L'Osservatore Romano, Weekly Edition in English, 4 August 1999
'Aquinas, God and Being', in Analytical Thomism: Traditions in Dialogue, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, U.K. (in press)

Papers in Theology:

'Observations on the Trinity: a reply to Professor Lochman', Theology, 1976
'The Place of the Virgin Mary in Dogmatics', Scottish Journal of Theology , 1984
'The Inner Jewishness of St John's Gospel as the clue to the Inner Jewishness of Jesus', Studien zum Neuen Testament und Seiner Umwelt, 13, 1988, pp. 101-157
'What Makes a Christology into a Christian Christology?', New Blackfriars 70, 1996

Reviews:

Review of Anselm's discovery: a re-examination of the ontological proof for God's existence by Charles Hartshorne. (La Salle, Open Court Publishing Co., USA, 1965) in Mind, 1968.
Review of From Existence to God by Barry Miller (Routledge, London, UK, (1992) in New Blackfriars 75, (1994), pp.228-30
Review of Medicine, Money and Morals by Mark A. Rodwin (OUP, New York, USA, 1993) in Times Higher Education Supplement, Sept 16th, 1994
Review of Redirecting Philosophy: Reflections on the Nature of Knowledge from Plato to Lonergan by Hugo A. Meynell, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998 in International Philosophical Quarterly, 40, 2000

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