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Australian philosopher From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Richard Haddow Forrest FAHA (born 1948) is an Australian philosopher.
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Born | Peter Richard Haddow Forrest 1948 (age 75–76) Liverpool, England |
Nationality | Australian |
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Doctoral advisor | George Mackey |
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Discipline | Philosophy |
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Institutions | University of New England |
Forrest was born in 1948 in Liverpool, England, and was educated at Ampleforth College. His undergraduate work was at Balliol College, Oxford, in mathematics, and he gained a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in mathematics from Harvard University.[1] After moving to Australia he gained a Master of Arts degree in philosophy at the University of Tasmania, then in 1984 a PhD degree at the University of Sydney, where he was influenced by philosophers David Stove and David Armstrong. He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of New England from 1987 to 2010.
In the philosophy of religion, Forrest's books God Without the Supernatural and Developmental Theism defend a speculative view of God which resembles traditional theism in regarding God as an entity beyond the world, having creative powers, but also takes God not to violate natural laws and to develop from a state of pure power to a state of pure love.
In the philosophy of time, Forrest defends the growing block theory, according to which the present and the past are real, but not the future.[2]
He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1990.[3]
He is married with four children.[citation needed]
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