David Conway (philosopher)
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David Conway (born 1947) is a British academic philosopher who has written several books on philosophy and politics. He has been described as "a classical liberal who thinks nations are essential".{{sfnp|Lester|2006}}
Conway grew up in London, read Philosophy as an undergraduate at Cambridge University in the 1960s and went on to obtain his doctorate in Philosophy from University College London. He taught at Middlesex University for over thirty years, where he was Professor of Philosophy. He subsequently worked at Roehampton University as a senior research fellow in Theology and Religious Studies. Conway then worked for CIVITAS, an independent British think tank, as a senior research fellow.Author biography from Liberal Education and the National Curriculum, p. vi.Roehampton affiliation as listed in [http://studentzone.roehampton.ac.uk/studentnews/readnews.asp?id=189&cc=277407 Theology and Religious Studies Research Seminar Programme, Spring Semester 2003]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Student News, Roehampton University, retrieved 2016-06-11.
Bibliography
- A Farewell to Marx: An Outline and Appraisal of His Theories (Penguin Books, 1987)Reviewed by {{citation
| last = Gordon | first = David
| editor1-last = Rothbard | editor1-first = Murray N.
| editor2-last = Block | editor2-first = Walter
| contribution = A Farewell to Marx: An Outline and Appraisal of His Theories
| contribution-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=803SdilsIqcC&pg=PA234
| doi = 10.1007/978-94-017-3454-7_11
| isbn = 978-94-017-3456-1
| pages = 234–240
| publisher = Kluwer Academic Publishers
| title = The Review of Austrian Economics
| volume = 4
| year = 1990}}.
- Classical Liberalism: The Unvanquished Ideal (Palgrave Macmillan, 1995)Reviewed by {{citation
| last = Archard | first = David
| department = New Books
| doi = 10.1017/s0031819100053560
| issue = 278
| journal = Philosophy
| page = 628
| title = Classical Liberalism: The Unvanquished Ideal by David Conway
| volume = 71
| year = 1996}}.Reviewed by {{citation
| last = Glass | first = James M.
| department = Book Reviews: Political Theory
| doi = 10.2307/2945857
| issue = 4
| pages = 888–890
| journal = American Political Science Review
| title = Classical Liberalism: The Unvanquished Ideal, and Liberty for the Twentieth-first Century: Contemporary Libertarian Thought
| volume = 90
| year = 1996| jstor = 2945857
}}.
- Free-Market Feminism (Institute of Economic Affairs, 1998)
- The Rediscovery of Wisdom: From Here to Antiquity in Quest of ‘Sophia’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000)Reviewed by {{citation
| last = Flew | first = Antony | authorlink = Antony Flew
| issue = 295
| journal = Philosophy
| jstor = 3752184
| pages = 164–167
| title = The Rediscovery of Wisdom by David Conway
| volume = 76
| year = 2001| doi = 10.1017/S0031819101230113 }}.
- In Defence of the Realm: The Place of Nations in Classical Liberalism (Ashgate Publishing Group, 2004)Reviewed by {{citation
| last = Schwarzmantel | first = John
| author-link=John Schwarzmantel
| department = Book Reviews
| doi = 10.1111/j.1354-5078.2005.214_1.x
| issue = 3
| journal = Nations and Nationalism
| pages = 463–466
| title = In Defence of the Realm: the Place of Nations in Classical Liberalism
| volume = 11
| year = 2005}}.Reviewed by {{citation
| last = Lester | first = J. C.
| issue = 3
| journal = Journal of Libertarian Studies
| page = 81
| title = In Defence of the Realm: the Place of Nations in Classical Liberalism
| url = https://mises.org/library/defence-realm-place-nations-classical-liberalism-david-conway
| volume = 20
| year = 2006}}.
- A Nation of Immigrants? (CIVITAS, 2007)
- Liberal Education and the National Curriculum (CIVITAS, 2010){{citation|title=National curriculum being 'dumbed down'|newspaper=The Telegraph|first=Graeme|last=Paton|date=4 January 2010|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/6927322/National-curriculum-being-dumbed-down.html}}.
- With Friends Like These: Why Britain Should Leave the EU – And How (CIVITAS, 2014)
- Encyclopedia article – {{cite encyclopedia|editor-first=Ronald |editor-last=Hamowy |editor-link=Ronald Hamowy |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism |chapter= Liberalism, Classical|pages = 295–98 |year=2008 |publisher= SAGE Publications, Cato Institute |location= Thousand Oaks, CA |isbn= 978-1-4129-6580-4 |oclc=750831024| lccn = 2008009151 |doi=10.4135/9781412965811.n179 }}
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