Braine attended Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he was influenced by the analytic philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe.
At Oxford, he completed Honour Moderations in Physics (1959) and degrees in history (B.A.1962; M.A.
[2] From 1965 to 1989, he was a lecturer in the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen.
[1] Braine was opposed to the legalization of euthanasia, and based some of that opposition on his own personal experience of living with a disability.
[5] The book argues against dualism and materialism whilst defending the views of Thomas Aquinas.