Alan Ker Stout FAHA (9 May 1900 – 20 July 1983) was a moral philosopher working at the University of Sydney, who also wrote on cinema.
[1] Stout gained his MA at Oxford in 1924 and, in June of that year, he was appointed to an assistant lectureship at the University College of North Wales in Bangor, under Professor James Gibson.
In June 1939, having applied for the position at the suggestion of Professor John Anderson, he commenced a career in the foundation Chair of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Stout was supposed to teach the "sensitive" subjects, like moral and political philosophy, while Anderson taught logic and metaphysics.
There was no genuine opposition between both philosophers though, because Stout ended up generally supporting Anderson's ideas.