Dewi Zephaniah Phillips | |
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![]() Dewi Phillips late in life | |
Born | 24 November 1934 |
Died | 25 July 2006 Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales | (aged 71)
Education | |
Alma mater | Swansea University St Catherine's College, Oxford |
Thesis | The language of talking to god : an investigation of some philosophical problems connected with prayer (1961) |
Philosophical work | |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy |
Main interests | Philosophy of religion, ethics, philosophy of literature |
Notable ideas | A new role for the philosophy of religion: not in uniting theology and philosophy, but in recognising and analysing their different functions[1] |
Dewi Zephaniah Phillips (24 November 1934 – 25 July 2006), usually cited as D. Z. Phillips, was a Welsh philosopher and theologian. Phillips was a leading proponent of the Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion.