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John Randolph Lucas FBA (18 June 1929 – 5 April 2020) was a British philosopher.
May 29, 2020 · The Rt Revd Professor N. T. Wright writes: JOHN LUCAS, who died on 5 April, aged 90, was one of the leading philosophers of his day. He was a lifelong Anglican, cheerfully orthodox in his beliefs, who served the Church of England in various capacities, notably on the Doctrine Commission in the 1970s and then on the Commission on Marriage and ...
In the paper for which he was perhaps best known, the philosopher John Lucas argued for the existence of free will and against determinism. Whether or not he himself possessed free will, he was...
Lucas is perhaps best known for his 1959 article "Minds. Machines, and Gödel," which led to a debate with Douglas Hofstadter, whose "Gödel, Escher, Bach" includes a strong criticism of Lucas and defense of the idea of artificial intelligent machines.
John Lucas wrote many books covering many different areas of philosophy. His contributions were often challenging and controversial, opposing contemporary trends
John Randolph Lucas (1929-2020), Oxford philosopher, was a fellow and tutor at Merton College. Lucas was born in Winchester and read Mathematics and Greats at Balliol College between 1947 and 1951.
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Dec 19, 2012 · Although best known for his paper “Minds, Machines and Gödel“, where he argues that an automaton cannot represent a human mathematician, Lucas has written widely on a diverse range of topics. His main area of research has focused on the philosophy of mathematics, especially the implications of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, the ...
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