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Celia Elizabeth Green (born 26 November 1935) is a British writer on philosophical scepticism, twentieth-century thought, and psychology. == Biography == Green's parents were both primary school teachers, who together authored a series of geography textbooks which became known as The Green Geographies.〔The Oxford Times, 8 September 1989, Obituary: ''Mr William Green, Headmaster and author.''〕 She was educated first at the Ursuline Convent in Ilford, and later at the Woodford High School for Girls, a state school. In a book, ''Letters from Exile'',〔Green, C., ''Letters from Exile, Observations on a Culture in Decline''. Oxford: Oxford Forum, 2004.〕 she compared these two schools and made conclusions that preferred parentally financed to state education. She won the Senior Open Scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford aged 17. In 1960 she was awarded a B.Litt. degree from Oxford University's faculty of Literae Humaniores (Philosophy), for a thesis, supervised by H. H. Price, entitled ''An Enquiry into Some States of Consciousness and their Physiological Foundation''.〔Green, C., ''An Enquiry into Some States of Consciousness and their Physiological Foundation'', B. Litt thesis, University of Oxford, 1960.〕 In 1961 Green founded the Institute of Psychophysical Research, to research areas of philosophy, psychology and theoretical physics. Its main benefactor, from 1963 to 1970, was Cecil Harmsworth King, then Chairman of the IPC group, which owned the ''Daily Mirror''. In 1996 Green was awarded a DPhil degree by the Oxford faculty of Literae Humaniores for a thesis on causation and the mind-body problem.〔Green, C., ''Causation and the Mind-Body Problem'', D. Phil thesis, University of Oxford, 1996.〕 Green is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool.〔(''Staff page'' ) of the Department of Philosophy, Liverpool University.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Celia Green」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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