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GEORGE CROOM ROBERTSON (1842-1892)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 406 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE CROOM See also:ROBERTSON (1842-1892)  , Scottish philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Aberdeen on the loth of See also:March 1842_ In 1857 he gained a bursary at Marischal See also:College, and graduated M.A. in 1861, with the highest honours in See also:classics and See also:philosophy . In ..the same See also:year he won a 'See also:Fergusson scholarship of boo a year for two years, which enabled him' to pursue his studies outside See also:Scotland . He went first to University College, See also:London; at See also:Heidelberg he worked at See also:German; at See also:Berlin he studied See also:psychology, See also:metaphysics and also See also:physiology under du Bois-Reymond, and heard lectures on See also:Hegel, See also:Kant and the See also:history of philosophy, See also:ancient and See also:modern . After two months at See also:Gottingen, he went to See also:Paris in See also:June 1863 . In the same year he returned to Aberdeen and helped See also:Alexander See also:Bain with the revision of some of his books . In 1864 he was appointed to help See also:Professor See also:Geddes with his See also:Greek classes, but he gave up the vacations to philosophical See also:work . In 1866 he was appointed professor of philosophy of mind and See also:logic at University College, London . This See also:post he retained until See also:ill-See also:health compelled him to resign a few months before his See also:death in 1892 . He lectured on logic, deductive and inductive, systematic psychology and ethical theory . He See also:left little published work . A comprehensive work on See also:Hobbes was never completed, though See also:part of the materials were used for an See also:article in the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica, and another portion was published as one of See also:Blackwood's " Philosophical Classics." Together with Bain, he edited See also:Grote's See also:Aristotle, and was the editor of Mind from its See also:foundation in 1876 till 189r . He was keenly interested in German philosophy, and took every opportunity of making German See also:works on See also:English writers known in the See also:United See also:Kingdom .

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Mill and Bain, but he was acquainted with all philosophical literature . He was associated with his wife (a daughter of Mr See also:Justice See also:Crompton) in many kinds of social work; he sat on the See also:Committee of the See also:National Society for See also:Women's See also:Suffrage, and was actively associated with its See also:president, See also:John See also:Stuart Mill . He warmly supported the See also:admission of women students to University College .

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