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Chair of Moral Philosophy is a professorship at Glasgow University,
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, which was established in 1727.
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The
Chair of Moral Philosophy is a professorship at Glasgow University,
ScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, which was established in 1727.
The Nova Erectio of King James VI of Scotland shared the teaching of Moral Philosophy, Logic and Natural Philosophy among the Regents. In 1727 separate chairs were instituted.
Professors of Moral Philosophy
- Gershom Carmichael
Gershom Carmichael , Scottish philosopher, was born probably in London, the son of Alexander Charmichael, a Presbyterian minister who had been banished by the Scottish privy council for his religious opinions. As a child, he suffered from crooked limbs and was treated by "body menders" who made him...
MA (1727)
- Francis Hutcheson MA LLD (1730)
- Thomas Craigie MA (1746)
- Adam Smith
Adam Smith was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations...
MA LLD (1752)
- Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid , Scottish philosopher, and a contemporary of David Hume, was the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, and played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment...
MA DD (1764)
- Archibald Arthur MA (1796)
- James Mylne MA (1797)
- William Fleming MA DD (1839)
- Edward Caird
Edward Caird was a philosopher and younger brother of the theologian John Caird.Caird was born at Greenock in Scotland, and educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford, where he became Fellow and Tutor of Merton College. In 1866, he was appointed to the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow,...
MA DCL LLD (1866)
- Sir Henry Jones CH MA LLD LittD FBA
- Alexander Dunlop Lindsay
Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker CBE , known as Sandie Lindsay, was a British academic and peer.-Life:...
CBE MA (1922)
- Sir Hector Hetherington GBE DL MA LLD DLitt D-es-L (1924)
- Archibald Allan Bowman MA LittD (1927)
- Sir Oliver Shewell Franks
Oliver Shewell Franks, Baron Franks, OM, GCMG, KCB, CBE, DL was an English public servant and philosopher who has been described as 'one of the founders of the post-war world'....
GCMG KCB CBE MA LLD (1936)
- William Gauld Maclagan MA PhD (1946)
- Robert Silcock Downie MA BPhil FRSE (1969-2000)
- Alan Brian Carter
Alan Brian Carter is the Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow.He earned a BA at the University of Kent at Canterbury, an MA at the University of Sussex and a DPhil at St Cross College at the University of Oxford.Carter's first academic position was Lecturer in Political...
BA MA DPhil (2005-)