Contemporary Times
Recent British philosophers particularly active in the philosophy of religion have included Antony Flew, C. S. Lewis, and John Hick.
Important moral and political philosophers have included R.M. Hare and Alasdair MacIntyre.
Other recent figures in the British analytic tradition include Derek Parfit, Karl Popper, Colin McGinn, Galen Strawson and his father P. F. Strawson, focusing on such fields as metaphysics, philosophy of mind, logic, and the philosophy of language.
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