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 of death: 2024
Year elected: 2006
Sections: Philosophy
Website: http://www.philosophy.rutgers.edu/recurring-visitng-faculty/753-adams-robert-merrihew

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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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Terence Irwin FBA

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

Professor Christine Korsgaard FBA

Moral philosophy and its history; Kantian ethics; practical reason; the philosophy of action; personal identity; the ethics of our treatment of animals

Dr Wilfrid Hodges FBA

Links between logic and semantics, including model-theoretic definitions of mathematical constructions, formal semantics for sentences with scope peculiarities, the logic of Ibn Sina and its semantic foundations

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Professor Robert Adams FBA

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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Terence Irwin FBA

Professor Christine Korsgaard FBA

Dr Wilfrid Hodges FBA

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Professor Robert Adams FBA

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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Terence Irwin FBA

Professor Christine Korsgaard FBA

Dr Wilfrid Hodges FBA

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