Arthur David Ritchie

Arthur David Ritchie (22 June 1891 – 12 March 1967) was a British philosopher.^[1]

Ritchie was educated at Fettes College, the University of St Andrews and Trinity College, Cambridge.^[1] Trained as a chemist, he served in the Royal Naval Air Service in World War I. He was elected a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge with a dissertation on scientific method, but shortly afterwards moved to the University of Manchester, where he was appointed lecturer in biological chemistry in 1922 and lecturer in physiological chemistry in 1924.^[2] From 1937 to 1945 he held the Sir Samuel Hall chair of philosophy at Manchester. From 1945 to 1960 he held the chair of logic and metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh.^[3]

Works

• Scientific method: an inquiry into the character and validity of natural laws, 1923. The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method.
• The comparative physiology of muscular tissue 1928
• The natural history of mind, 1936
• Civilization, science and religion, 1945
• Science and politics, 1947
• Essays in philosophy, and other pieces, 1948
• Reflections on the philosophy of Sir Arthur Eddington 1948
• British philosophers, 1950
• George Berkeley's Siris, the philosophy of the great chain of being and the alchemical theory, 1954
• Studies in the history and methods of the sciences, 1958
• George Berkeley, a reappraisal, 1967

References

1. RITCHIE, Arthur David, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
2. The Chemical Age, Vol. 37 (1937), p.87
3. Bertrand Russell, Essays on language, mind, and matter, 1919-26, Unwin Hyman, 1988, p.259