Brian Kennedy

About The Author

Dr Brian Kennedy was for many years a senior lecturer in varied fields of history at Monash University. His books A Tale of Two Mining Cities: Johannesburg and Broken Hill and Silver, Sin and Sixpenny Ale: A Social History of Broken Hill and A Passion to Oppose: John Anderson, Philosopher were published by Melbourne University Press.

Books by Brian Kennedy

Passion To Oppose

John Anderson, philosopher

By Brian Kennedy
John Anderson was Australia's most important philosopher in the first half of this century. The young Scotsman held the chair of philosophy at the University of Sydney for thirty years until retirement in 1958. He developed his own distinctive system of realism and fathered a vigorous local schoo...
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