Fraser, ALEXANDER CAMPBELL

Fraser, ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, born in 1819 at Ardchattan in Argyllshire, studied at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, and in 1850-57 was editor of the North British Review. At first a Free Church minister, in 1856 he succeeded Sir William Hamilton in the chair of Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh, and in 1859 became Dean of the Faculty of Arts. His edition of Berkeley's works (4 vols. Clar. Press), with dissertations and annotations, a life of the bishop, and an account of his philosophy, appeared in 1871, Selections from Berkeley in 1874, and in 1881 his monograph on Berkeley in Blackwood's 'Philosophical Classics,' to which series he also contributed Locke (1889). He retired from his chair in 1891. In 1894 he edited Locke's Essay, with prolegomena and biography (2 vols.); in 1895-96 delivered two courses of Gifford Lectures on The Philosophy of Religion. The article LOCKE in the present work is from his pen.