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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
Sections: 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

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