John Anderson
From Philosopedia
Anderson, John (1893—1962)
Anderson, a Scottish freethinker whose socialist and anti-cleric father had a profound influence upon him, was appointed to Challis Chair of Philosophy, the University of Sydney, Australia, where he taught from 1927 to 1958.
A pluralist, he claimed one can never know anything completely, that everything–religion, censorship, patriotism, social conventions–should be critically approached.
He founded the Sydney University Freethought Society, circulated the banned James Joyce Ulysses with a cover inscribed “A Book of Common Prayer,” and held that religious influences should be hounded out of education.
