Biography
Born in Neath, Glamorganshire, Wales, Price was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He obtained first-class honours in Literae Humaniores in 1921. He was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1922-4, Assistant Lecturer in philosophy at the university of Liverpool (1922-3), Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College Oxford (1924-35), Lecturer in philosophy at Oxford (1932-5) and Wykeham Professor of Logic and Fellow of New College (1935-59). Price was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1943 to 1944. He was elected to the British Academy in 1943.
Price is perhaps best known for his work on the philosophy of perception. He argues for a sophisticated sense-datum account, although he rejects phenomenalism. In his book Thinking and Experience, he moves from perception to thought and argues for a dispositionalist account of conceptual cognition. Concepts are held to be a kind of intellectual capacity, manifested in perceptual contexts as recognitional capacities. For Price, concepts are not some kind of mental entity or representation. The ultimate appeal is to a species of memory distinct from event recollection.
He died in Oxford.
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