Patrick Gardiner

Patrick Gardiner
Born(1922-03-17)17 March 1922
Died24 June 1997(1997-06-24) (aged 75)
Oxford, England
Philosophical work
Notable worksThe Nature of Historical Explanation (1952), Schopenhauer (1963), Kierkegaard (1988)

Patrick Lancaster Gardiner, FBA (17 March 1922 – 24 June 1997) was a British academic philosopher and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He was a specialist in the philosophy of history but wrote on a wider array of topics, publishing notable studies of Schopenhauer in 1963 and Kierkegaard in 1988.