John Alexander Smith

John Alexander Smith

John Alexander Smith (1863 - 1939) was an Idealist philosopher, who was the Jowett Lecturer of philosophy from 1896, and the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy from 1910 to 1936.

Smith was educated at Inverness Academy, at the collegiate school, Edinburgh, at Edinburgh University (where he was Ferguson classical scholar in 1884), and at Balliol College, Oxford, to which he was admitted as Warner exhibitioner and honorary scholar in Hilary term 1884. His most visible accomplishments was his work with William David Ross on a 12 volume commentary on Aristotle, and his Gifford Lectures for 1929 - 1931 on the "Heritage of Idealism", which were never published.

External links

* [http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=154 Biography of Smith] by Dr Michael W. DeLashmutt for Templeton Press' site for the Gifford Lectures.


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