Colin Murray Turbayne

Colin Murray Turbayne

Full name	Colin Murray Turbayne
Born	7 February 1916(1916-02-07) Australia
Died	May 16, 2006(2006-05-16) (aged 90)
Era	20th & 21st century
Region	Western philosophy
Main interests	George Berkeley’s philosophy

Colin Murray Turbayne (7 February 1916 – 16 May 2006) was an Australian philosopher, who spent most of his academic career at the University of Rochester, where he first had a position in 1957 and became professor emeritus in 1981. His doctorate was from the University of Pennsylvania. During World War II he had worked for Australian Intelligence, in the Pacific War theatre.

He was an authority on George Berkeley and was the first commentator to recognize the central importance of metaphor in the philosophy of Berkeley.^[1] He is best known for his book The Myth of Metaphor, published in 1962. In this book, prof. C. Turbayne argued that metaphor would necessarily occur in any language that could ever claim to embody richness and depth of understanding.^[2] In the early 1990s Colin M. Turbayne and his wife established an International Berkeley Essay Prize competition in cooperation with the Philosophy Department at the University of Rochester^[3]

External links

• Introduction to The Myth of Metaphor
• Memorial notice (PDF) (Hampden-Sydney College)
• Paul J. Olscamp. In Memoriam: Colin Murray Turbayne // Berkeley Newsletter No. 17 (2006): pp. 5–6. (PDF)
• Berkeley Prize Winners
• INTERNATIONAL BERKELEY SOCIETY

Notes

1. ^ Murphy, Jeffrie G. “Berkeley and the Metaphor of Mental Substance.” Ratio 7 (1965):171, note 3.
2. ^ Murphy, Jeffrie G. “Berkeley and the Metaphor of Mental Substance.” Ratio 7 (1965):176.
3. ^ Colin and Ailsa Turbayne International Berkeley Essay Prize Competition

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Name	Turbayne, Colin Murray
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Date of birth	7 February 1916
Place of birth	Australia
Date of death	16 May 2006
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