The Chair of Moral Philosophy is a professorship at the
University of Glasgow
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, Scotland, which was established in 1727.
The Nova Erectio of King
James VI
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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
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Gershom Carmichael
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Gershom Carmichael was a Scottish subject born in London, the son of Alexander Charmichael, a Church of Scotland minister who had been banished by the Scottish privy council for h ...
MA (1727)
*
Francis Hutcheson MA LL
(1729)*
Thomas Craigie
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MA (1746)
*
Adam Smith
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MA LLD (1752)
*
Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid (; 7 May (Julian calendar, O.S. 26 April) 1710 – 7 October 1796) was a religiously trained Scotland, Scottish philosophy, philosopher best known for his philosophical method, his #Thomas_Reid's_theory_of_common_sense, theory of ...
MA DD (1764)
*
Archibald Arthur MA (1796)
*
James Mylne MA (1797)
*
William Fleming MA DD (1839)
*
Edward Caird
Edward Caird (; 23 March 1835 – 1 November 1908) was a Scottish philosopher. He was a holder of LLD, DCL, and DLitt.
Life
The younger brother of the theologian John Caird, he was the son of engineer John Caird, the proprietor of Caird ...
MA DCL LLD (1866)
* Sir
Henry Jones CH MA LLD LittD FBA
*
Alexander Dunlop Lindsay
Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, (14 May 1879 – 18 March 1952),
CBE MA (1922)
* Sir
Hector Hetherington
Sir Hector James Wright Hetherington (21 July 1888 – 15 January 1965) was a Scottish philosopher, who was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool from 1927 to 1936, and Principal of the University of Glasgow until 1961.
Early life
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GBE DL MA LLD DLitt D-es-L (1924)
*
Archibald Allan Bowman MA LittD (1927)
* Sir
Oliver Shewell Franks GCMG KCB CBE MA LLD (1936)
*
William Gauld Maclagan MA PhD (1946)
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Robert Silcock Downie MA BPhil FRSE (1969–2000)
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Alan Brian Carter BA MA DPhil (2005–2011)
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Glen Pettigrove (2017–present)
See also
*
List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow
References
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*''Who, What and Where: The History and Constitution of the University of Glasgow''. Compiled by Michael Moss, Moira Rankin and Lesley Richmond)
Moral Philosophy
Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches include normative ethics, applied et ...
Professorships in philosophy
1727 establishments in Scotland