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.
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