ABSTRACT
As a defender of lost causes, Andrew Collier is surely without equal in contemporary philosophy. In his latest book, In Defence of Objectivity, he describes himself as ‘a Bhaskarian in theory of knowledge, a Spinozist in philosophy of mind, a Kleinian in psychology, an Augustinian in ethics, a Lutheran in theology, and an eco-Trotskyist in politics’ (Collier 2003b: 127). To find a defender of any of these positions at a present-day philosophy conference would be a fairly rare event; to find a defender of all of them could mean only one thing: one has met Andrew Collier.
