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Fergus Kerr

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The Reverend Fergus Kerr OP FRSE
Born	(1931-07-16) 16 July 1931 (age 93)
Nationality	Scottish
Known for	His work on Ludwig Wittgenstein and Thomas Aquinas

Academic work
Institutions	Blackfriars, Oxford University of Edinburgh

Fergus Gordon Thomson Kerr OP FRSE (born 16 July 1931) is a Scottish Roman Catholic priest of the English Dominican province. He has published significantly on a wide range of subjects, but is famous particularly for his work on Ludwig Wittgenstein and Thomas Aquinas.

Biography

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Following his education at Banff Academy and his service in the RAF (1953–1955), Kerr entered the Order of Preachers in 1956. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1962. Kerr studied in Aberdeen, Paris, Munich, and Oxford. He was a student of Donald M. MacKinnon, John Holloway, and Cornelius Ernst. From 1966 to 1986 he taught philosophy and theology at the University of Oxford.

In service to the English Dominican province, Kerr was Prior at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford from 1969 to 1978. From 1992 to 1998 he served as Prior at Blackfriars, Edinburgh. In 1998, he returned to Blackfriars, Oxford, where he served as Regent until 2004. Kerr served as the Director of the Aquinas Institute, Blackfriars, Oxford and is the editor of New Blackfriars, the bimonthly journal of the English Dominicans (1995–present).^[1]^[2]

Currently, Kerr is affiliated with Blackfriars, Edinburgh, where he lives and works. He holds an honorary fellowship in the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh and has a role in the university's Catholic chaplaincy team.^[2]^[3] He is also an Honorary Professor of St. Andrews University, a distinction he has held since 2005. Kerr belongs to the Catholic Theological Society of Great Britain, of which he was president from 1992 to 1994.^[4]

A festschrift was prepared in Kerr's honor entitled Faithful Reading.^[5]

Kerr was awarded an Honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity by the University of Edinburgh in December 2019.^[6]^[3]

Bibliography

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Books

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Kerr, Fergus (1986). Theology After Wittgenstein. Oxford ; New York: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-14688-9. OCLC 13003858.
— & David Nicholls, eds. (1991). John Henry Newman : reason, rhetoric, and romanticism. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-1758-5. OCLC 22909941.
Kerr, Fergus (1997). Immortal Longings: versions of transcending humanity. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 978-0-2680-1180-2. OCLC 36407666.
— (2002). After Aquinas: versions of Thomism. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. ISBN 978-0-631-21312-3. OCLC 49743625.
— (2007). Twentieth-Century Catholic Theologians: from neoscholasticism to nuptial mysticism. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. ISBN 978-1-405-12083-8. OCLC 64098440.
— (2007). Contemplating Aquinas: On the Varieties of Interpretation. London: SCM Press. ISBN 978-0-334-02922-9. OCLC 54715171.
— (2008). "Work on Oneself": Wittgenstein's Philosophical Psychology. Institute for the Psychological Sciences monograph series. Vol. 1. Arlington, VA: Institute for the Psychological Sciences Press. ISBN 978-0-9773-1031-9. OCLC 174138810.
— (2009). Thomas Aquinas : a very short introduction. Very Short Introductions; 214. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-1995-5664-9. OCLC 430497008.

Book reviews

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Year	Review article	Work(s) reviewed
2021	Kerr, Fergus (November 2021). "[Untitled review]". New Blackfriars. 102 (1102): 1015–1017.	Fitzpatrick, Joseph (2021). Leavis and Lonergan : literary criticism and philosophy. Lanham, Md.: Hamilton Books.

References

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^ "List of Fergus Kerr's Publications". New Blackfriars. 82 (968): 478–480. 2001. doi:10.1111/j.1741-2005.2001.tb01778.x.
^ ^a ^b "Rev Dr Fergus Kerr OP". Blackfriars. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Honorary graduate details | The University of Edinburgh". www.scripts.sasg.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Officers of the Association". Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain. Archived from the original on 27 December 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
^ Simon Oliver; Karen Kilby; Thomas O'Loughlin, eds. (2012). Faithful Reading: New Essays in Theology in Honour of Fergus Kerr, OP. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0-567-64403-9.
^ Fr Fergus Kerr OP (Award of Honorary Degree), retrieved 9 January 2020^{[dead link‍]}

v t e Ludwig Wittgenstein
Family	Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein Karl Wittgenstein Paul Wittgenstein Works associated with Paul Wittgenstein
Early work	Picture theory of language Truth tables Wittgenstein's ladder
Later work	Language-game Private language argument Family resemblance Rule-following Form of life Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics Therapeutic approach
Publications	Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus "Some Remarks on Logical Form" Blue and Brown Books Philosophical Remarks Philosophical Investigations On Certainty Culture and Value Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics Zettel Remarks on Colour Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology, and Religious Belief
Movements	Analytic philosophy Linguistic turn Ideal language philosophy Logical atomism Logical positivism Ordinary language philosophy Wittgensteinian fideism Quietism
Friends	G. E. M. Anscombe R. B. Braithwaite Rudolf Carnap Paul Engelmann John Maynard Keynes Peter Geach Norman Malcolm G. E. Moore David Pinsent Frank P. Ramsey Rush Rhees Bertrand Russell Moritz Schlick Francis Skinner Piero Sraffa Vienna Circle Friedrich Waismann Peter Winch G. H. von Wright
Biographers	David Edmonds Ray Monk William Warren Bartley
Secondary sources	A. J. Ayer Gordon Baker James F. Conant Alice Crary Cora Diamond Terry Eagleton Peter Hacker Dale Jacquette Saul Kripke Anthony Kenny Warren Goldfarb Stanley Cavell D. Z. Phillips Colin McGinn Jaakko Hintikka Oswald Hanfling A. C. Grayling Rupert Read Barry Stroud Stephen Toulmin Crispin Wright Fergus Kerr Wittgenstein's Poker
Related	Cambridge Apostles Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club Haidbauer incident Haus Wittgenstein Fritz Mauthner
Film	Wittgenstein (film) Wittgenstein Tractatus

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