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Edward Caird

1835 – 1908

British philosopher

Philosopher Ethicist
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About Edward Caird

Lived 1835 – 1908 (aged 73). Edward Caird was a British philosopher and ethicist.

Family He married Caroline Frances Wylie in 1867. They had no children.

Works Books The Collected Works of Edward Caird, 12 volumes, ed. Colin Tyler, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1999 A Critical Account of the Philosophy of Kant, with an Historical Introduction, Glasgow: J. Maclehose, 1877 Hegel, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co.; Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1883 The Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte, Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1885; New York: Macmillan, 1885 The Critical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1889; New York: Macmillan, 1889 (2 volumes) Volume 1 Volume 2 second edition 1909 Essays on Literature and Philosophy, Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1892 (2 volumes) Volume 1 Volume 2 The Evolution of Religion, Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1893; New York: Macmillan, 1893 (Gifford Lectures 1890–92; I, II) The Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers, Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1904 (Gifford Lectures, 1900–02; I, II) Lay sermons and addresses, delivered in the Hall of Balliol College, Oxford (1907)

Pamphlets The Problem of Philosophy at the Present Time: an Introductory Address Delivered to the Philosophical Society of the University of Edinburgh, Glasgow, James Maclehose & Sons, 1881 The Moral Aspect of the Economical Problem: Presidential Address to the Ethical Society, London, Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1888 Address on Plato's Republic as the Earliest Educational Treatise, Bangor: Jarvis & Foster, 1894 Individualism and Socialism, Being the Inaugural Address to the Civic Society of Glasgow (1897) Idealism and the Theory of Knowledge, London: Henry Frowde, 1903

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Important facts

Birth century
Education
University of Glasgow, Balliol College, Greenock Academy
Employers
University of Oxford, University of Glasgow
Awards
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Doctor of Letters; Fellow of the British Academy
Also known as
E. C.

Contemporaries

People whose lives overlapped Edward Caird's

Frequently asked questions

Who was Edward Caird?

British philosopher (1835–1908)

When was Edward Caird born?

Edward Caird was born on 23 March 1835 in Greenock.

When did Edward Caird die?

Edward Caird died on 1 November 1908 in Oxford.

What was Edward Caird's occupation?

Edward Caird was a philosopher and ethicist.

What nationality was Edward Caird?

Edward Caird was British.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Edward Caird

· Wikidata: Q1247054

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