Arthur David Ritchie

Arthur David Ritchie ((1891-06-22)22 June 1891 – (1967-03-12)12 March 1967) was a British philosopher.

Ritchie was educated at Fettes College, the University of St Andrews and Trinity College, Cambridge. Trained as a chemist, he served in the Royal Naval Air Service in World War I. He was elected a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge with a dissertation on scientific method, but shortly afterwards moved to the University of Manchester, where he was appointed lecturer in biological chemistry in 1922 and lecturer in physiological chemistry in 1924. From 1937 to 1945 he held the Sir Samuel Hall chair of philosophy at Manchester. From 1945 to 1960 he held the chair of logic and metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh.