Richard Braithwaite, a founding EP from a Quaker family, was Knightbridge Professor of Moral philosophy at Cambridge, and a Fellow of Kings College, although his main work was in the Philosophy of Science. His lectures “An empiricist’s view of religious belief” and “Games theory as a tool for the moral philosopher both started (separate) schools of study.
Richard Braithwaite’s Wikipedia article
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This is one of the most widely cited religious lectures of the 1970s-80s: his view that belief should be understood in terms of behaviour, and that the New Testament parables were our major stories influencing belief/behaviour.
His inaugural lecture for the Ethics Chair was on a subject he said he knew little about, so he wrote on what he knew and started a new field on the application of games theory to Ethics.
