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John Neville Keynes

1852–1949

A careful Victorian thinker who helped shape economics as an academic discipline, he wrote on both logic and method at a time when the social sciences were finding their modern form. He is also remembered as the father of John Maynard Keynes, though his own work earned a respected place at Cambridge in its own right.

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Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic

Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic

by John Neville Keynes

About the author

Born in Salisbury in 1852, John Neville Keynes studied at University College London and then at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he later became a fellow. He spent much of his career at Cambridge, teaching moral sciences and taking on important university administrative roles.

His best-known writing includes The Scope and Method of Political Economy and Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic. These books show the range of his interests: he worked on questions of economic method, classification, and reasoning, and he was known for trying to bring clarity and balance to debates that were often treated as opposites.

Keynes died in 1949. Although he is sometimes mentioned mainly because he was the father of John Maynard Keynes, John Neville Keynes was a significant scholar in his own time, with a long academic life connected to Cambridge and to the development of economics and logic as serious fields of study.