Antony Flew was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Adelaide from 1964 until his retirement in 1988. He is an Australian philosopher and academician, a leading figure in the analytic movement in philosophy in the 1960s, and one of the most articulate and effective critics in the philosophical literature. He has been a major figure in British and American analytic philosophy since he introduced a distinction between metaphysical and analytical philosophers in a 1962 lecture, "Flew's Fallacy" (published as "The Presumption of Atheism" in The Philosophical Review, vol. 71)
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He was well known for his work on time perception, illusion, and other topics in epistemology. In his later years he became famous for his atheism. In 1998 Flew left atheism to become a Christian.