Edward Caird

Edward Caird while a professor at the University of Glasgow.

Caird as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, April 1895.

Edward Caird FRSE (23 March 1835 – 1 November 1908) was a Scottish philosopher and younger brother of the theologian John Caird.

He was the son of engineer John Caird, the proprietor of Caird & Company,

He was born at Greenock in Renfrewshire, and educated at Greenock Academy and the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford (BA 1863), where 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.

His more important works include Critical Philosophy of Kant (1877), Hegel (1883), Evolution of Religion, Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte (1885), and Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers (1904).

The philosopher John Watson was among his students at the University of Glasgow.

Works

Books

• The Collected Works of Edward Caird, 12 vols., 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 vols.)
• Essays on Literature and Philosophy, Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1892 (2 vols.)
• 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)

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
• Idealism and the Theory of Knowledge, London: Henry Frowde, 1903
• Lay Sermons and Addresses, Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons; New York: Macmillan, 1907

Bibliography

• Sir Henry Jones and John Henry Muirhead, The Life and Philosophy of Edward Caird, Glasgow: Maclehose, Jackson and Co., 1921
• Colin Tyler, Edward Caird, in Dictionary of Liberal Thought; Brack & Randall (eds.), Politico's 2007 pp 54-56

External links

• Edward Caird works, on the Internet Archive
• The life and philosophy of Edward Caird, by Sir Henry Jones and John Henry Muirhead (1921), on the Internet Archive
• The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Academic offices
Preceded by Benjamin Jowett	Master of Balliol College, Oxford 1893-1907	Succeeded by James Leigh Strachan Davidson

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J. M. Dent & Sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.