Edward Caird
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Edward Caird | |
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 Caird while a professor at the University of Glasgow | |
| Born | 23 March 1835 Greenock, Scotland |
| Died | 1 November 1908 (aged 73) Oxford, England |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | University of Glasgow Balliol College, Oxford |
Academic advisor | Benjamin Jowett |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| British idealism[1] | |
| Institutions | Merton College, Oxford |
Notable students | John Alexander Smith |
Main interests | Philosophy of religion |
Notable ideas | The relation of evolutionary theory to the development of thought and culture[1] |
Edward Caird FRSE FBA (/kɛərd/; 23 March 1835 – 1 November 1908) was a Scottish philosopher. He was a holder of LLD, DCL, and DLitt.
The younger brother of the theologian John Caird, he was the son of engineer John Caird, the proprietor of Caird & Company,[2] born at Greenock in Renfrewshire, and educated at Greenock Academy, the University of Glasgow, and Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1863).[3] He was a Fellow and Tutor of Merton College, Oxford from 1864 to 1866.[4][5]: xxxvi
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. In 1894 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Merton College.[4]
He was elected an 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.[6]
He was a founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage,[7] alongside his wife, Caroline.
The philosopher John Watson was among his pupils at the University of Glasgow.[8]
He died in Oxford on 1 November 1908 and was buried there in St Sepulchres Cemetery.[9]
Caird was a Hegelian idealist and was an important contributor to the British idealist movement.[10][11]: 121
Family
He married Caroline Frances Wylie in 1867. They had no children.[12]
