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Ferrier, James Frederick

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Ferrier, James Frederick (1808–64), nephew of Susan Ferrier, studied German philosophy at Heidelberg and was successively professor of civil history at Edinburgh (1842–5) and of moral philosophy and political economy at St Andrews (1845–64).

His idealistic philosophy, connected with that of Berkeley, is set forth in The Institutes of Metaphysic (1854) and Lectures on Greek Philosophy and Other Philosophical Remains (1866). In substance, Ferrier's conclusions closely resemble those of Hegel, though reached independently and from a different starting point.

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James Frederick Ferrier

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James Frederick Ferrier , 1808-64, Scottish philosopher. He was a professor at Edinburgh (1842-45) and at St. Andrews from 1845 until his death. His major work, the Institutes of Metaphysic (1854), denied the absolute existence of matter and maintained instead that mind and matter necessarily coexist in all experience.

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