Along with Russell, he led the turn away from idealism in British philosophy, and became well known for his advocacy of common sense concepts, his contributions to ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics, and " his exceptional personality and moral character.

He studied mathematics, metaphysics, and philosophy under Professor William Small, who introduced the enthusiastic Jefferson to the writings of the British Empiricists, including John Locke, Francis Bacon, and Isaac Newton.

The hero's experience is recorded in " notebooks ", which are compiled to form the actual narrative, and which serve to record his unusual, mostly sexual, experiences in British India — the narrator describes himself as dominated by " a devilish indifference " towards " all things having to do with art or metaphysics ", focusing instead on eroticism.

At that point British philosophy in general revolted once more against metaphysics in general.

Galen John Strawson ( born 1952 ) is a British philosopher and literary critic who works primarily on philosophy of mind, metaphysics ( including free will, panpsychism, the mind-body problem, and the self ), John Locke, David Hume and Kant.

Duns Scotus wrote treatises on Catholic theology, grammar, logic, and metaphysics which were widely used as textbooks in the medieval British universities.

He is currently working on a project supported by the British Academy to chart the metaphysics of quantity.

Jonathan Francis Bennett ( born 1930 ) is a British philosopher of language and metaphysics, and a historian of early modern philosophy.

Mainstream British cinema also reflected a change in attitudes, with Heat and Dust ( 1982 ), Gandhi ( 1982 ) and Cry Freedom ( 1987 ), although these did not directly address the experiences of minorities in Britain.

When the army and navy were formed, the uniforms adopted by each service reflected British military and naval tradition.

This distinctive taste is reflected in the British company's marketing slogan: " Love it or hate it.

Alongside the musical roots shared with their American counterparts and the calculated confrontationalism of the early Who, the British punks also reflected the influence of glam rock and related bands such as Slade, T. Rex, and Roxy Music.

This institutional design reflected the conception of how Americans believed the deposed British system of Crown and Parliament ought to have functioned with respect to the royal dominion: a superintending body for matters that concerned the entire empire.

Its formation reflected recommendations made by John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham in the Report on the Affairs of British North America following the Rebellions of 1837.

This newly established Danish interest in British cask beer and the British pub tradition is reflected by the fact that some 56 British cask beers were available at the 2008 European Beer Festival in Copenhagen, which was attended by more than 20, 000 people.

Following the news of his death, Scott became an iconic British hero, a status maintained for more than 50 years and reflected by the many permanent memorials erected across the nation.

Until after World War II, the landlocked British possession of Southern Rhodesia was not developed as an indigenous African territory, but rather as a unique state which reflected its multiracial character.

Photos of the plant taken from the air reflected devastation for the factory and a successful sabotage mission, and Chapman, as a British sabotage double-agent, fooled the Germans for the duration of the war.

According to Malcolm Baird, his son, what is known is that in 1926 Baird filed a patent for a device that formed images from reflected radio waves, a device remarkably similar to radar, and that he was in correspondence with the British government at the time.

) The choice of cover subjects reflected Morrissey's interest in cult film stars ( Stamp, Alain Delon, Jean Marais, Warhol protégé Joe Dallesandro, James Dean ); figures from sixties British popular culture ( Viv Nicholson, Pat Phoenix, Yootha Joyce, Shelagh Delaney ); and anonymous images from old films and magazines.

* So Disdained ( 1928 ), written soon after the General Strike of 1926, reflected the debate in British Society about socialism and considered whether Italian fascism was an effective antidote.

The fact that it acquired a governing role in the sport reflected the dominant role of the aristocracy in British horse racing up to the 20th century, and the removal of this role was in part a conscious effect to move the sport away from its patrician image.

Preserving the broader landscapes of the past also rose in importance, reflected in the decision by the UNESCO World Heritage Site programme to internationally recognise several British castles including Beaumaris, Caernarfon, Conwy, Harlech, Durham and the Tower of London as deserving of special international cultural significance in the 1980s.

This characterisation reflected the British refusal to attend to the legitimate social and economic grievances of the Kikuyu, including grievances that were a result of colonial rule.

Boosted by 19 April 1709 issue of Daniel Defoe's A Review of the Affairs of France, a periodical that supported the Harley ministry, the concept was a key factor in British negotiations, and was reflected in the final treaties.

Hastings supports Buckley's conclusion, acknowledging that although the Tiger was " incomparably " more deadly than the British Cromwell tank, the " shambles " caused by Wittmann's tanks reflected poorly on the tactical handling of the British force.

About 1860 he was engaged in an inquiry on the intensity of light reflected from, or transmitted through, a pile of plates ; and in 1862 he prepared for the British Association a valuable report on double refraction, a phenomenon where certain crystals show different refractive indices along different axes.

One was the NDP's provincial affiliates in British Columbia and Ontario, whose unpopularity in government reflected badly on the federal party.

The establishment of the Canadian Department reflected the aspirations of the Continental Congress and some Americans to annex the British province of Quebec, then often referred to as " Canada ", but the effort was ultimately unsuccessful.

* 1961 – Robert Carlyle, British actor

In the 2003 film Hitler: The Rise of Evil, British actor Robert Glenister plays Drexler, although Drexler is portrayed without his trademark spectacles and moustache.

British architects Brenda and Robert Vale have said that, as of 2002, " It is quite possible in all parts of Australia to construct a ' house with no bills ', which would be comfortable without heating and cooling, which would make its own electricity, collect its own water and deal with its own waste ... These houses can be built now, using off-the-shelf techniques.

In 1796, during the French Revolution and three years after the declaration of war between France and Great Britain, Étienne-Gaspard Robert met with the French government and proposed the use of mirrors to burn the invading ships of the British Royal Navy.

The earliest known owner of the Beowulf manuscript is the 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is named, though its official designation is British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. XV because it was one of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the Cotton Library in the middle of the 17th century.

Charles Robert Malden ( 9 August 1797 – 23 May 1855 ), was a nineteenth century British naval officer, surveyor and educator.

Robert Adam's brother James was in Rome in 1762, drawing antiquities under the direction of Clérisseau ; he invented a British Order, of which his ink-and-wash rendering with red highlighting, is at the Avery Library, Columbia University.

Sir Robert Gordon, younger brother of the fourth Earl, was a diplomat and served as British Ambassador to Austria.

Volunteer Robert Holland for example remembered being abused by people he knew as he was being marched into captivity and said the British troops saved them from being manhandled by the crowds.

They had two children, Lady Emily Elizabeth Bulwer-Lytton ( 1828 – 1848 ), and ( Edward ) Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ( 1831 – 1891 ) who became Governor-General and Viceroy of British India ( 1876 – 1880 ).

This enabled the development of imitations, such as the camera devised by British electrician and scientific instrument maker Robert W. Paul and his partner Birt Acres.

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the American Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross.

* 1857 – Robert Baden-Powell, British soldier, author, and Scout movement founder ( d. 1941 )

Among prominent Fifth Monarchists were Thomas Harrison, Christopher Feake, Vavasor Powell, John Carew, John Rogers and Robert Blackborne, Secretary of the Admiralty and later of the British East India Company.

Robcol — in line with normal British Army practice for ad hoc formations — was named after its commander, Brigadier Robert Waller, the Commander Royal Artillery of the 10th Indian Infantry Division.

The only writer to widely publish British grimoires in the early 19th century, Robert Cross Smith, released The Philosophical Merlin ( 1822 ) and The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century ( 1825 ), but neither sold well.

" Gardnerian " was originally a pejorative term coined by Gardner's initiate and contemporary Roy Bowers ( also known as Robert Cochrane ), a British cunning man.

The first operation was carried out on a 23 year-old British male, Robert Johnson, in early 2007.

The first operation was carried out on a 23 year-old British male, Robert Johnson, in early 2007.

From the mid-1760s a range of Neoclassical modes were fashionable, associated with the British architects Robert Adam, James Gibbs, Sir William Chambers, James Wyatt, George Dance the Younger, Henry Holland and Sir John Soane.

In 1751, Robert Clive led a British armed force and captured Arcot to reinstate the incumbent Nawab.

Sir Harold ( Harry ) Walter Kroto, FRS ( born 7 October 1939 as Harold Walter Krotoschiner ), is a British chemist and one of the three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley.

The British historian Joseph Needham and the American historian Robert Temple write that the practice of inoculation for smallpox began in China during the 10th century.