Patrick Lancaster Gardiner, FBA (1922–1997) was a British academic philosopher and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
His paternal grandfather was Alfred George Gardiner, editor of The Daily News.
He was educated at Westminster School, and then received a First in history from Christ Church, Oxford.
After Army service in Italy, North Africa and Austria, he returned to Oxford for a second B.A., in PPE (politics, philosophy and economics).
His books on Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard were "models of how to respect the extremity of an author's thinking without condoning it" and "recaptured a whole philosophical terrain for the sophisticated reader".