Name Edward Caird | Role Philosopher | |
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Books The Evolution Of Religion, The Evolution Of Theolo, A Critical Account of the Philos, Social Philosophy and Relig, Essays on Literature and Philo | ||
Edward Caird FRSE (; 23 March 1835 – 1 November 1908) was a Scottish philosopher, born in Greenock. He was a holder of LL.D., DCL and DLitt.
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Life
The younger brother of the theologian John Caird, he was the son of engineer John Caird, the proprietor of Caird & Company, born at Greenock in Renfrewshire, and educated at Greenock Academy and the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford (B.A. 1863). He became Fellow and Tutor of Merton College.
In 1866, he was appointed to the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, which he held until 1893. In that year he became Master of Balliol College, from which he retired in 1907.
He was elected a Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1900.
In May 1902 he was at Carnavon to receive the honorary degree D.Litt. (Doctor of Letters) from the University of Wales during the ceremony to install the Prince of Wales (later King George V) as Chancellor of that university.
The philosopher John Watson was among his students at the University of Glasgow.
He died in Oxford on 1 November 1908 and was buried there in St Sepulchres Cemetery.
Family
He married Caroline Frances Wylie in 1867. They had no children.