Chairs of Moral Philosophy and Logic & Metaphysics
List of Chairs from 1708 to the present day
Chair of Moral Philosophy
| Dates | Name |
|---|---|
| 1708 | William Law |
| 1729 | William Scott |
| 1734 - 1745 | John Pringle |
| 1745 - 1754 | William Cleghorn (David Hume unsuccessful) |
| 1754 - 1764 | James Balfour |
| 1764 - 1785 | Adam Ferguson |
| 1785 - 1820 | Dugald Stewart |
| 1810 - 1820 | Thomas Brown (conjoint professor) |
| 1820 - 1851 | John Wilson (wrote journalism as 'Christopher North') |
| 1853 | P.C. McDougall |
| 1868 | Henry Calderwood |
| 1898 | James Seth |
| 1924 - 1941 | Alfred Edward Taylor (performed duties till 1944) |
| 1944 - 1957 | John Macmurray |
| 1959 | Winston Herbert Frederick Barnes |
| 1964 - 1973 | Harry Burrows Acton |
| 1975 - 1996 | Ronald Hepburn |
| 1999 - 2004 | Rae Langton |
Chair of Logic and Metaphysics
| 1708 | Colin Drummond |
| 1730 | John Stevenson |
| 1774 | John Bruce |
| 1786 | James Finlayson |
| 1808 | David Ritchie |
| 1836 - 1856 | William Hamilton |
| 1856 | Alexander Campbell Fraser |
| 1891 - 1919 | Andrew Seth (from 1898 known as 'Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison') |
| 1919 - 1945 | Norman Kemp Smith |
| 1945 - 1960 | Arthur David Ritchie |
| 1960 - 1976 | William Henry Walsh |
| 1979 - 1989 | Timothy Sprigge |
| 1995 - 2000 | Timothy Williamson |
| 2000 - 2003 | Huw Price |
| 2004 - 2018 | Andy Clark |