(1887-1971) English philosopher. Although he criticised the extravagant speculation of absolute idealists like McTaggart in his Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy, Broad was more willing than his contemporaries Russell and Moore to engage in metaphysical as well as epistemological theorizing. The philosophy of mind expressed in Scientific Thought (1923) and The Mind and its Place in Nature clearly defended the reality of physical and mental phenomena, including (notoriously) the possibility of genuine parapsychological phenomena.