D. J. B. Hawkins

Denis John Bernard Hawkins (17 July 1906 – 16 January 1964) was a British philosopher and Roman Catholic priest.^[1]

Hawkins was born in Thornton Heath and attended Whitgift School, Croydon.^[2] He obtained his doctorates in philosophy (1927) and theology (1931) from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.^[2]

He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1930 for the diocese of Southwark.^[2] He was a parish priest in Claygate in 1940 and received an honorary canon of the diocese of Southwark in 1956. Hawkins was a neo-Thomist and updated Thomism with modern thought.^[2] He was influenced by the realism of Thomas Aquinas, that the human mind can know external reality. He also defended a form of direct realism and an intuitive perception theory.^[2] In a review, William Kneale described Hawkins' The Criticism of Experience as a restatement of the Scottish common sense school.^[3]

^ "Hawkins, Denis John Bernard". New Catholic Encyclopedia. The Gale Group, 2003.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Denis John Bernard Hawkins". Oxford Reference. Ed. Retrieved 18 Feb. 2019
^ Kneale, William. (1946). Reviewed Work: The Criticism of Experience by D. J. B. Hawkins. Philosophy 21 (79): 180–181.

[1] "Hawkins, Denis John Bernard". New Catholic Encyclopedia. The Gale Group, 2003.

[Oxford-2] "Denis John Bernard Hawkins". Oxford Reference. Ed. Retrieved 18 Feb. 2019

[3] Kneale, William. (1946). Reviewed Work: The Criticism of Experience by D. J. B. Hawkins. Philosophy 21 (79): 180–181.

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