Alexander Campbell Fraser

Alexander Campbell Fraser (1819 - 1914) was a Scottish philosopher, born at Ardchattan, Argyllshire. After a university training at Edinburgh and Glasgow he entered the Free Church. For a brief term, he was a Free Church minister of Cramond, from which he was transferred to a chair in the Free Church College, but in 1856 succeeded Sir William Hamilton as professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh, a position he held till 1891, when he resigned. His writings include the standard edition of Berkeley, with notes and a life, monographs on Locke and Berkeley in the series of "Philosophical Classics," and two volumes on the "Philosophy of Theism," being the Gifford Lectures delivered 1895-96.

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