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| Born | Richard Bevan Braithwaite 15 January 1900 Banbury, England |
| Died | 21 April 1990 (aged 90) Cambridge, England |
| Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge |
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| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Academic advisors | G. E. Moore[1] |
| Doctoral students | Imre Lakatos, Stephan Körner |
Main interests | Philosophy of religion |
Notable ideas | The existence of logical features common to all the sciences[2] The nature of religious belief Half-belief[3] |
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Richard Bevan Braithwaite FBA (15 January 1900 – 21 April 1990) was an English philosopher who specialized in the philosophy of science, ethics, and the philosophy of religion.
- ^ Alice Ambrose, Morris Lazerowitz (eds.), G. E. Moore: Essays in Retrospect, Volume 3, Psychology Press, 2004, p. 25.
- ^ R. B. Braithwaite, Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science, Cambridge University Press, 1953, p. 1.
- ^ Braithwaite, R.B.; Price, H.H. (1964). "Half-Belief". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes. 38: 149–174. doi:10.1093/aristoteliansupp/38.1.149.
- ^ Sonja K. Foss, Karen A. Foss, Robert Trapp, Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric: 30th Anniversary Edition, Waveland Press, 2014, p. 116.