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Birth Name:

Quentin Skinner

Male

Birth Date:

Tue, Nov 26, 1940

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Oldham, England, United Kingdom

Age:

84

Zodiac Sign:

Sagittarius

Astrology Data:

Sun

4°

Sag

3'

About Quentin Skinner

Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner FBA (born 1940) is a British intellectual historian. He is regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought. He has won numerous prizes for his work, including the Wolfson History Prize in 1979 and the Balzan Prize in 2006. Between 1996 and 2008 he was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. He is currently the Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities and Co-director of The Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London.

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External Links:

• Queen Mary University of London School of History: Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities Professor Quentin Skinner - official page

• Quentin Skinner, "Belief, Truth, and Interpretation" A lecture delivered at a conference at the Ruhr-University Bochum on 18 November 2014.

• "The Paradoxes of Political Liberty", The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Harvard University, 1984

• Philosophy Bites podcast of Quentin Skinner on Hobbes on the State

• Philosophy Bites podcast of Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli's The Prince

• 'Three Concepts of Liberty' Video recorded at the Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany.

• Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 10 January 2008 (video)

• Sins of a Historian. An academic discussion on the problem of anachronism including a large exposition of Skinner's methodological views by Sami Syrjämäki.

• "Quest for Freedom – A Conversation with Quentin Skinner", Ideas Roadshow, 2014

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Quentin Skinner: Sun 4 Sagittarius, Moon 24 Libra, Mercury 14 Scorpio, Venus 29 Libra, Mars 3 Scorpio, Jupiter 7 Taurus, Saturn 9 Taurus, Uranus 23 Taurus, Neptune 27 Virgo, Pluto 4 Leo, Venus Conjunct Mars, Sun Trine Pluto, Mercury Opposition Saturn, Sun Semi Sextile Mars, Mercury Semi Square Neptune, Venus Square Pluto, Mars Opposition Jupiter, Mars Square Pluto, Jupiter Conjunct Saturn, Jupiter Square Pluto, Saturn Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Uranus Trine Neptune

Categories related to Quentin Skinner: Living people, Cambridge, November 26 births, Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, English historians, Fellows of the British Academy, 1940 births, Hobbes scholars, English atheists, Fellows of the Royal Historical Society, People educated at Bedford School, Fellows of Christs College, Academics of Queen Mary University of London, People from Oldham, Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Members of the University of Cambridge faculty of history, English republicans, English political philosophers, Historians of political thought