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David Braine (philosopher)

British philosopher (1940–2017)

David Braine
Born	(1940-09-02)2 September 1940
Died	17 February 2017(2017-02-17) (aged 77) Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen
Resting place	Pluscarden Abbey, Elgin, Scotland
Occupation	Analytic philosopher
Parents	Charles Dimond Conway Braine (father) Edith Braine (mother)

David Braine (2 September 1940 – 17 February 2017^[1]) was a British analytic philosopher with interests in analytic philosophy of religion and metaphysics, who sought to marry the techniques and insights of analytical philosophy and phenomenology to the metaphysics of classical Thomism.

Biography

Braine attended Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he was influenced by the analytic philosopherElizabeth Anscombe. At Oxford, he completed Honour Moderations in Physics (1959) and degrees in history (B.A.1962; M.A. 1965) and Philosophy (B.Phil. 1965).^[2] From 1965 to 1989, he was a lecturer in the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen.^[

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Obituary: David Braine, leading Catholic philosopher who battled disability

The Catholic academic David Braine, who has died aged 76, exerted a major influence on philosophy and theology, and became a celebrated figure in Aberdeen for his courage in facing severe disability. His three major works – The Reality of Time and the Existence of God, The Human Person, and Language and Human Understanding – established him as a pioneer in the movement known today as Analytical Thomism.

David Dimond Conway Braine was born in 1940, the son of Edith Braine, a secondary school teacher, and Charles Dimond Conway Braine, a civil engineer. He had a conventional Anglican upbringing, attending a traditional public school. His conversion to Catholicism occurred in his early teens. Although he was eloquent on the invalidity of Anglican Orders, he liked to point out that in a technical sense he never converted. When he approached a Catholic priest to be received into the Church, he was (correctly) informed that a child who is validly baptised automatically becomes a Catholic, and so until t

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David Braine was born in London and educated in Somerset. David went on to graduate from university with a BSC Hons 2.1 degree in Meteorology and Oceanography.

After graduating he worked briefly for the North Wales water authority and from 1985 to 1986 he worked as a sub-sea engineer and diver for British Underwater Engineering based in London and spent a lot of time offshore.

From 1986 to 1987 David worked as research student at Oxford University’s Department of Atmospheric Physics, specifically working on the ozone hole and global warming.

In 1987 he joined the Royal Navy (Fleet Air Arm) as a Lieutenant initially to learn to navigate helicopters and then as an environmental expert and instructor. David still serves in the reserves as a Lieutenant Commander based at Royal Navy Air Station Yeovilton.

During his eight-year commission he has served both at naval air stations and at sea, travelling all over the world, and he did service during the Gulf War and the former Yugoslavia civil war.

After leaving the Royal Navy, David joined the Meteorolog