FRASER, Alexander Campbell was born on September 3, 1819 in Ardchattan Manse, Company Argyll. Son of Reverend Hugh Fraser of Ardchattan, and Maria Helen, daughter of Alexander Campbell of Barcaldine and Glenure, Company Argyll, and sister of Sir Duncan Campbell, 1st Baronet.
Studied at home, and at Edinburgh University. Doctor of Civil Law; Doctor of Laws. Doctor of Letters.
3 September 1819 – 2 December 1914) was a Scottish philosopher. In 1859 he became dean of the faculty of arts In 1831 Sir William Hamilton was appointed to the chair of Logic and Metaphysics, and Fraser became his pupil.
He himself said "I owe more to Hamilton than to any other influence." lieutenant was about this time also that he began his study of Berkeley and Coleridge, and deserted his early phenomenalism for the conception of a spiritual will as the universal cause.
In the Biographia this "Theistic faith" appears in its full development (see the concluding chapter), and is especially important as perhaps the nearest approach to Kantian ethics made by original English philosophy. Apart from the philosophical interest of the Biographia, the work contains valuable pictures of the Lam of Lorne and Argyllshire society in the early 19th century, of university life in Glasgow and Edinburgh, and a history of the North British Review.
Fraser devoted himself to the study of British and Irish philosophers, especially George Berkeley, and published:
Collected Edition of the Works of Bishop Berkeley with Annotations, et cetera (1871; enlarged 1901).
Charles Peirce praised this edition for both including some writing not in other editions, and offering a more carefully edited texts.
While Peirce praised the book for the provision of useful introductions, he opined that the explanatory notes disfigured every page in an unnecessary and useless manner. Biography of Berkeley (1881),
Annotated Edition of Locke"s Essay (1894),
a biography of Thomas Reid (1898) in the "Famous Scots Series". He contributed the article on John Locke to the Encyclopædia Britannica.
In 1904 he published an autobiography entitled Biographia philosophica, in which he sketched the progress of his intellectual development.
From this work and from his Gifford Lectures (1894-1896) we learn objectively what had previously been inferred from his critical work. After a childhood spent in an austerity which stigmatized as unholy even the novels of Sir Walter Scott, he began his college career at the age of fourteen at a time when Christopher North and Doctor Ritchie were lecturing on Moral Philosophy and Logic.
His first philosophical advance was stimulated by Thomas Brown"s Cause and Effect, which introduced him to the problems which were to occupy his thought. From this point he embraced the scepticism of David Hume.
He received an honorary Doctorate of Letters (Doctor of Letters ) from the University of Dublin in June 1902.
Fraser"s portrait, by George Reid Public Relations Society of America, hangs in the Old College in Edinburgh University.
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Quotations: "I owe more to Hamilton than to any other influence.".
Fellow of the Royal Society Edinburgh 1858. Club: Athenaeum.
Spouse 1850, Jemima Gordon (daughter 1907),daughter of Doctor Dyce, of Cuttlehill, Company Aberdeen, and sis. of William
Dyce, Resident Advisor
