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John Laird (17 May 1887 – 5 August 1946) was a philosopher, in the school of New British Realism, who later turned to metaphysical idealism. John Laird was born at Durris, Kincardineshire, a parish adjacent to the birthplace of famous Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid. He was the son and Margaret Laird (née Steward) and D. M. W. Laird, a Church of Scotland minister, (himself the son of John Laird, a minister and Free Church moderator). Laird was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1929 to 1930. He was a prolific writer and public speaker.

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  • John Laird (* 17. Mai 1887 in Durris, Kincardineshire; † 5. August 1946 in Aberdeen) war ein schottischer Philosoph und Hochschullehrer. Von 1924 bis zu seinem Tod war er der Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy an der University of Aberdeen. (de)
  • John Laird, född 17 maj 1887, död 5 augusti 1946, var en brittisk filosof. Efter studier i Edinburgh och Cambridge för bland andra och George Edward Moore kom Laird att självständigt utveckla en modern realism bland annat i verken Problems of the self (1917), A study in realism (1920), A study in moral theory (1926), The idea of value (1930), Knowledge, belief, and opinion (1930), samt Hume's philosophy of human nature (1932). Han blev professor i Belfast 1915 i Aberdeen 1925. 1924 publicerade han en självbiografi i Contemporary british philosophy. (sv)
  • John Laird (17 May 1887 – 5 August 1946) was a philosopher, in the school of New British Realism, who later turned to metaphysical idealism. John Laird was born at Durris, Kincardineshire, a parish adjacent to the birthplace of famous Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid. He was the son and Margaret Laird (née Steward) and D. M. W. Laird, a Church of Scotland minister, (himself the son of John Laird, a minister and Free Church moderator). Laird was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1929 to 1930. He was a prolific writer and public speaker. (en)
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  • John Laird (* 17. Mai 1887 in Durris, Kincardineshire; † 5. August 1946 in Aberdeen) war ein schottischer Philosoph und Hochschullehrer. Von 1924 bis zu seinem Tod war er der Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy an der University of Aberdeen. (de)
  • John Laird (17 May 1887 – 5 August 1946) was a philosopher, in the school of New British Realism, who later turned to metaphysical idealism. John Laird was born at Durris, Kincardineshire, a parish adjacent to the birthplace of famous Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid. He was the son and Margaret Laird (née Steward) and D. M. W. Laird, a Church of Scotland minister, (himself the son of John Laird, a minister and Free Church moderator). He attended the grammar school of Aberdeen and the University of Edinburgh, where in 1908 he graduated with a first class M.A. degree in philosophy. He spent a brief interval at Heidelberg before entering Trinity College, Cambridge as a Scholar. He graduated from Cambridge with a 1st class B.A. in both parts of the Moral Sciences tripos. (He received his Cambridge M.A. in 1920.) He was an Assistant Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews in 1911 and took up a Professorship of Philosophy at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1912. In the following year he returned to the United Kingdom as Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Queen's University, Belfast (1913–24). In 1924 he was appointed as Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, a position which he held until his death. He was Mills Lecturer, University of California, 1923-4 and Gifford Lecturer, Glasgow University, 1939-40. In 1913 he met Helen Ritchie. They married in 1919 and had one son, who died in childhood. After the move to Aberdeen the Lairdslived in Powis Lodge, Old Aberdeen. Laird was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1929 to 1930. He was a prolific writer and public speaker. (en)
  • John Laird, född 17 maj 1887, död 5 augusti 1946, var en brittisk filosof. Efter studier i Edinburgh och Cambridge för bland andra och George Edward Moore kom Laird att självständigt utveckla en modern realism bland annat i verken Problems of the self (1917), A study in realism (1920), A study in moral theory (1926), The idea of value (1930), Knowledge, belief, and opinion (1930), samt Hume's philosophy of human nature (1932). Han blev professor i Belfast 1915 i Aberdeen 1925. 1924 publicerade han en självbiografi i Contemporary british philosophy. (sv)
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