Antony G. N. Flew (1923–2010) was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Reading in England until his death on April 8, 2010. He served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, studying Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies from 1942 to 1943, before joining RAF Intelligence until the cessation of hostilities in 1945. Following the war, he took a first class degree from St John’s College, Oxford, in 1947, and during this time he was a regular attendee of C.S. Lewis’s Oxford Socratic Club. He did his Ph.D. research under Gilbert Ryle, following which he served as a lecturer in philosophy at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1949 to 1950. From 1950 to 1954, he was a lecturer in moral philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, and then he became a professor of philosophy at Keele University in Staffordshire, where he remained until 1973, at which point he moved to the University of Reading. He retired in 1983, and took up a part-time post at York University in Toronto. He gave the 1986-1987 Gifford Lectures at the University of St Andrews.