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Revision as of 22:01, 8 June 2014
The Chair of Moral Philosophy formed part of the Faculty of Arts when it was established as a distinct entity in 1708. The first Professor, William Law, had previously been one of the Regents.
Professors of Moral Philosophy
Chair of Moral Philosophy
William Law, 1708-
William Scott, Secundus, 1729-
John Pringle, 1734-
William Cleghorn, 1745-
James Balfour, 1754-
Adam Ferguson, 1764-
Dugald Stewart, 1785-
Thomas Brown, 1810-
John Wilson, 1820
Patrick Campbell MacDougall, 1853-
Henry Calderwood, 1868
James Seth, 1898
Alfred Edward Taylor, 1924-1941
John Macmurray, 1944-1957
Winston Herbert Frederick Barnes, 1959 -
Harry Burrows Acton, 1964-1973
Ronald Hepburn, 1975-1996
Rae Langton, 1999-2004
Other People
David Hume: a student at the University between 1722 and 1726, he was passed over for the Chair of Ethical and Pneumatical Philosophy (Moral Philosophy), in 1745, on grounds of atheism.
Adam Smith
George Elder Davie (1912–2007)