Robert Craigie Cross
Robert Craigie Cross
Life
He was born in
Working in tandem with Wladek Bednarowski, he helped redirect the courses in logic and philosophy. There was a renewed emphasis on common sense and painstaking analysis, which typified Oxford philosophy.
He served with distinction as secretary of the Shipbuilding Trades Joint Council and the Admiralty Industrial Council, revealing administrative and diplomatic talents.[2]
While teaching Aberdeen undergraduates, he helped to make more popular philosophy classes. "At the end of the 1950s Aberdeen differed from other Scottish universities, all of which had some philosophy compulsion, in the greater popularity, with considerably larger classes, of logic and metaphysics over moral philosophy. Cross's presence made a substantial contribution to that popularity."[2]
After the war he returned to Oxford University until 1953, when he transferred to a chair, as Regius Professor of Logic, at
He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1972. He was elected a Fellow of the
He retired in 1978 and moved to the Scottish Borders. He died in Edinburgh on 13 September 2000.[4]
Family
In 1943 he married Peggy Catherine Elizabeth Vernon. They had two daughters.
Publications
- Plato's Republic: A Philosophical Commentary (1964) co-written with Anthony Douglas Woozley
References
- ^ a b Dictionary of 20th Century British Philosophers: Robert Cross
- ^ a b c d e Cameron, Robin; Bird, Graham; Gasiin, Max. "Robert Craigie Cross" (PDF). The Independent. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ^ "Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Ediinburgh 1783-2002" (PDF). p. 219. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ^ "Robert Craigie Cross (1911โ2000)". The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 12 December 2015.(subscription required)