Fowler, THOMAS

Fowler, THOMAS, English philosopher, was born at Burton-Stather, in Lincolnshire, 1st September 1832. He graduated at Merton College, Oxford, in 1854, and has ever since been closely connected with that university, first as tutor of Lincoln College, afterwards as professor of Logic from 1873, and as president of Corpus Christi College from 1881. His principal works are Elements of Deductive Logic (1867; 8th ed. 1883); Elements of Inductive Logic (1870; 4th ed. 1883); Bacon's Novum Organum, with notes and an introduction (1878); an edition of Locke's Conduct of the Understanding (1881; 2d ed. 1882); Progressive Morality (1884); and Principles of Morals (1887). Others are Locke in 'English Men of Letters,' as well as Bacon, and Shaftesbury and Hutcheson in 'English Philosophers.'