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Robert Merrihew Adams
American philosopher (1937–2024)
Robert Merrihew AdamsFBA (September 8, 1937 – April 16, 2024) was an American analytic philosopher.
He specialized in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, and the history of early modern philosophy.
Life and career
Adams was born on September 8, 1937, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Follow Robert Merrihew Adams and explore their bibliography from 's Robert Merrihew Adams Author Page.He taught for many years at the University of California, Los Angeles, before moving to Yale University in the early 1990s as the Clark Professor of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics. As chairman, he helped revive the philosophy department[1] after its near-collapse due to personal and scholarly conflicts between analytical and Continental philosophers.[2] Adams retired from Yale in 2004 and taught part-time at the University of Oxford in England, where he was a senior research fellow of Mansfield College.
In 2009 he became a Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Cha