James Frederick Ferrier
1808–64
Scottish philosopher. BA, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1832. Admitted to the Scottish bar, but never practised. Elected professor of civil history, University of Edinburgh, 1842; of moral philosophy and political economy, St Andrews, 1845. Applied German idealism to Scottish common-sense philosophy; developed an innovative non-empirical account of epistomology and metaphysics.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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