Professor Robert Adams FBA

Philosophy of Religion, History of Modern Philosophy (mainly 17th and 18th centuries), Ethical Theory, Metaphysics
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2006
Year of death
2024
Subjects
Philosophy
Sections
Philosophy

Last post

Yale University Emeritus Professor of Philosophy

Past appointments

Yale University Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Yale University

2016 -

Rutgers University Visiting Professor of Philosophy

2014 -

University of North Carolina Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy

2009 - 2014

Mansfield College University of Oxford Visiting Professor of Philosophy

2004 - 2009

Mansfield College University of Oxford Senior Research Fellow

2004 - 2014

Yale University Clark Professor of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics

1993 - 2003

University of California, Berkeley Associate Professor / Professor of Philosophy

1972 - 1993

University of Michigan Lecturer / Assistant Professor of Philosophy

1968 - 1972

Publications

Liebniz: determinist, theist, idealist 1994

Finite and infinite goods 1999

A theory of virtue 2006

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Professor Helen Beebee FBA

Metaphysics of science, in particular causation, laws of nature and natural kinds; the metaphysics of free will and moral responsibility; the epistemology of analytic philosophy

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Professor Adrian Moore FBA

History of philosophy (especially Kant and Wittgenstein); metaphysics; philosophy of mathematics; philosophy of language; ethics; and philosophy of religion.

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Professor Matthew Kramer FBA

Political, moral, and legal philosophy: deontological ethics; justice; moral realism as a moral doctrine; legal positivism and legal objectivity; rights and freedom

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