C. D. Broad 1887 – 1971

Charlie Dunbar Broad was a British analytic philosopher and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge for nearly fifty years. He distinguished critical philosophy, the scrutiny of the categories we already use, from speculative philosophy, the attempt to articulate a world-view on the basis of all available evidence, and produced major works in both modes. The Mind and Its Place in Nature, his Tarner Lectures, surveyed the main theories of mind and body, while Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy systematically engaged the thought of his predecessor in the Trinity chair. He was unusual among analytic philosophers in taking psychical research seriously.