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Thomas (Tom) Douglas Campbell (1938–2019) was a Scottish philosopher and jurist. He held academic positions in Scotland and Australia, and was a professorial fellow of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) in
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.


Early life

Campbell studied mental philosophy at the
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, graduating M.A. with
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in 1962, and received a
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to study
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at
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, graduating in 1964. He then returned to Glasgow to study for a Ph.D., with a thesis entitled ''Adam Smith and the Sociology of Morals'', whilst lecturing in the university on
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and
political philosophy Political philosophy studies the theoretical and conceptual foundations of politics. It examines the nature, scope, and Political legitimacy, legitimacy of political institutions, such as State (polity), states. This field investigates different ...
. His Ph.D. was awarded in 1969.


Career

Campbell left Glasgow in 1973 to become professor of philosophy at the recently established
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, returning in 1979 as professor of jurisprudence. In 1990, Campbell left Scotland for Australia, to become professor of law at the
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, serving as dean of the
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from 1994 to 1997. He retired in 2001 and then was a professorial fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), a joint venture of the
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,
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and
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, and director of the Charles Sturt University Division of the centre.


Death

Campbell died in Canberra on 27 July 2019, aged 81.


See also

* ANU College of Law *
University of Glasgow School of Law The School of Law at the University of Glasgow provides undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Law, and awards the degrees of Bachelor of Laws (''Legum Baccalaureus'', LLB), Master of Laws (''Iuris Vtriusque Magistrum'', LLM), LLM by Researc ...


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Campbell, Tom Alumni of the University of Glasgow Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Academics of the University of Glasgow Academics of the University of Stirling Academic staff of the Australian National University British philosophers of law 2019 deaths 20th-century Scottish philosophers 1938 births