Author:Robert Adamson

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Robert Adamson (1852–1902)

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Scottish philosopher; held the chair of logic at the University of Aberdeen. Several of his lectures were published in book form following his death.

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This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, and the list on this page is complete to 1901.
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "R. A."

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "R. Ad."

Robert Adamson

Works

• Development of Greek Philosophy, The (1908)
• Development of Modern Philosophy and Other Essays, The (1903)
• Fichte (1881) Blackwood's Philosophical Classics
• On the Philosophy of Kant (1879)

Contributions to the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition

• "Bacon, Francis," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (2) (1878)
• "Bacon, Roger," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (2) (1878)
• "Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (4) (1878)
• "Hermann, Friedrich Benedict Wilhelm von," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (11) (1880)

Contributions to the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition

• "Bacon, Francis," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (with John Malcolm Mitchell)
• "Bacon, Roger," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (with an anonymous co-author)
• "Beneke, Friedrich Eduard," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Berkeley, George," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (with John Malcolm Mitchell)
• "Bonaventura, Saint," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Bruno, Giordano," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Butler, Joseph," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Category," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Erigena, Johannes Scotus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Fichte, Johann Gottlieb," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (with an anonymous co-author)
• "Fourier, François Charles Marie," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Gassendi, Pierre," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Hume, David," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (with John Malcolm Mitchell)
• "Kant, Immanuel," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (with an anonymous co-author)
• "Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)

Contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography

• Adelard of Bath
• Alcuin
• Alexander of Hales
• Alfred Anglicus
• Bacon, Roger
• Eyton, Thomas Campbell

Works about Adamson

• "Death: Robert Adamson," in The Times (1902)
• "Adamson, Robert," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Adamson, Robert," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.
• "Adamson, Professor Robert," in A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists (p. 9), (ed.) by Joseph McCabe, London: Watts & Co. (1920)