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===Articles and reports===
 
===Articles and reports===
 
*[[Anthony O'Hear]], 'Academic freedom and the University', in Malcolm Tight (Ed.) ''Academic Freedom and Responsibility', Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1988, p. 6-16.
 
*[[Anthony O'Hear]], 'Academic freedom and the University', in Malcolm Tight (Ed.) ''Academic Freedom and Responsibility', Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1988, p. 6-16.
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Anthony O’Hear, ''[http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/pub/000011.php NonSense about Nature]'' [[Social Affairs Unit]], 1997 ISBN 0 907631 72 X 30 pages, £5.00
 
*[[Anthony O'Hear]] ''Faking It - The Sentimentalisation of Modern Society'' [[Social Affairs Unit]]<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/79288.stm Author defends Diana criticism] ''BBC News'', Friday, April 17, 1998 Published at 12:44 GMT 13:44 UK</ref>
 
*[[Anthony O'Hear]] ''Faking It - The Sentimentalisation of Modern Society'' [[Social Affairs Unit]]<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/79288.stm Author defends Diana criticism] ''BBC News'', Friday, April 17, 1998 Published at 12:44 GMT 13:44 UK</ref>
*[[Anthony O'Hear]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20010628022831/http://web.archive.org/web/20010628022831/www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM121/LM121_OHear.html 'A sense of proportion about Jill Dando'], ''LM 121'', p. 15, June 1999.  
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*[[Anthony O'Hear]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20010628022831/http://web.archive.org/web/20010628022831/www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM121/LM121_OHear.html 'A sense of proportion about Jill Dando'], ''LM 121'', p. 15, June 1999.
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==Notes==
 
==Notes==
 
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[[Category:Academics|O'Hear, Anthony]]
 
[[Category:Academics|O'Hear, Anthony]]

Revision as of 11:28, 18 April 2011

Anthony O'Hear is an academic and conservative activist holding a Buckingham University, endowed Chair, the Garfield Weston Professor of Philosophy.[1] He was a Government special adviser on education for almost a decade under Margaret Thatcher and John Major’s Governments, and has sat on the boards of the School Curriculum Assessment Authority, The Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education and the Teacher Training Agency.[2]

Affiliations

Social Affairs Unit, Trustee circa 2002 [3] | Centre for the Study of Liberty, University of Buckingham | Reform, advisory council [4]

Publications

Books

  • Karl Popper (1980)
  • What Philosophy Is (1985)
  • The Element of Fire (1989)
  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (1990)
  • Beyond Evolution (1997)
  • After Progress (1999)
  • Introducing Christianity (2000)
  • Philosophy in the New Century (2001)
  • Plato's Children (2006)
  • The Great Books: From The Iliad and The Odyssey to Goethe's Faust: A journey through 2,500 years of the West's classic literature (2007)

Articles and reports

  • Anthony O'Hear, 'Academic freedom and the University', in Malcolm Tight (Ed.) Academic Freedom and Responsibility', Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1988, p. 6-16.

Anthony O’Hear, NonSense about Nature Social Affairs Unit, 1997 ISBN 0 907631 72 X 30 pages, £5.00

Notes

  1. Buckingham University Department of Education >> Staff , accessed 3 September 2010
  2. Department for Education Members: Teachers’ Standards Review Group: Professor Anthony O’Hear, accessed 18 April 2011
  3. Social Affairs unit Marketing the Revolution, p.11, accessed 18 April 2011
  4. Reform our People, accessed 18 April 2011
  5. Author defends Diana criticism BBC News, Friday, April 17, 1998 Published at 12:44 GMT 13:44 UK