Tom Campbell

Thomas (Tom) Douglas Campbell (1938–2019) was a Scottish philosopher and jurist. He held academic positions in Scotland and Australia, and was a professorial fellow of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) in Canberra.

Early life Campbell studied mental philosophy at the University of Glasgow, graduating M.A. with first class honours in 1962, and received a Snell Exhibition to study theology at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating in 1964. He then returned to Glasgow to study for a Ph.D., with a thesis entitled Adam Smith and the Sociology of Morals, whilst lecturing in the university on social and political philosophy. His Ph.D. was awarded in 1969.

Career Campbell left Glasgow in 1973 to become professor of philosophy at the recently established University of Stirling, returning in 1979 as professor of jurisprudence. He retired in 2001 and then was a professorial fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), a joint venture of the Australian National University, Charles Sturt University and University of Melbourne, and director of the Charles Sturt University Division of the centre.

Death Campbell died in Canberra on 27 July 2019, aged 81.