Professor Robert Adams FBA

Philosophy of Religion, History of Modern Philosophy (mainly 17th and 18th centuries), Ethical Theory, Metaphysics

Elected 2006

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2006
Subjects: Philosophy
Website: http://www.philosophy.rutgers.edu/recurring-visitng-faculty/753-adams-robert-merrihew

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Yale University

Past appointments

Yale University Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Yale University

Jul 2016 -

Rutgers University Visiting Professor of Philosophy

Jan 2014 -

University of North Carolina Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy

Jul 2009 - Jan 2014

Mansfield College University of Oxford Visiting Professor of Philosophy

Jan 2004 - Jan 2009

Mansfield College University of Oxford Senior Research Fellow

Jan 2004 - Jan 2014

Yale University Clark Professor of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics

Jan 1993 - Jan 2003

University of California, Berkeley Associate Professor / Professor of Philosophy

Jan 1972 - Jan 1993

University of Michigan Lecturer / Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Jan 1968 - Jan 1972

Publications

Liebniz: determinist, theist, idealist 1994

Finite and infinite goods 1999

A theory of virtue 2006

Related Fellows

Professor Katherine Hawley FBA

Metaphysics, including identity, time, parthood and social metaphysics; epistemology, including applied and social epistemology; ethics, including trust, distrust and trustworthiness

Professor Sir Richard Sorabji FBA

Philosophy of Mind, Ethics, Philosophy of Physics, Metaphysics, History of Greek and Roman Philosophy (all branches) to 600CE, History of Islamic, Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Philosophy of Church Fathers to 600CE

Professor Terence Irwin FBA

Ancient Philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism. Kant. Moral philosophy, especially its history

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