R. G. Collingwood

Robin George Collingwood (February 22, 1889 – January 9, 1943), British philosopher and historian. Collingwood was a latter day idealist, a Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford and an amateur painter.

Works

• Speculum Mentis (1924)
• An Essay on Philosophic Method (1933)
• The Principles of Art (1936)
• Roman Britain and the English Settlements (with J. N. L. Myres, 1936)
• An Autobiography (1939)
• An Essay on Metaphysics (1940)
• The New Leviathan (1942)
• The Idea of History (1946)
• The Idea of Nature (1960)
• The Principles of History and Other Writings in Philosophy of History (2001)