George Croom Robertson

George Croom Robertson ( born March 10, 1842 in Aberdeen, † September 20, 1892 ) was a Scottish philosopher and founding editor of the influential journal Mind.

Robertson was born in 1842 in Aberdeen and graduated in 1861 in classical studies and philosophy from Marischal College. The Thinker won a two-year Fergusson scholarship and continued his studies at University College London as well as in Germany. On the Continent he attended the universities of Heidelberg, Humboldt -University of Berlin, where he studied physiology and metaphysics under Emil du Bois- Reymond. In 1863 he moved to two months at the University of Göttingen in June to Paris and returned later that year to Aberdeen back to Alexander Bain editing to assist.

1866 Robertson was appointed professor of philosophy of mind and logic at University College, London, and remained there for the rest of his academic career. In addition to the cooperation with Bain and never finalized works of Thomas Hobbes, which were later incorporated by the Encyclopædia Britannica in preparing the local entry Hobbes, the philosopher occurred mainly by the editor shaft of Mind in appearance. Robertson held the position 1876-1891 and also was involved in the introduction of women's suffrage in Britain.

Works

• " Prefatory Words", Mind, Vol 1 No. 1, January 1876.
• " Sense of Ness with Double Crossed Fingers ", Mind, Vol 1 No. 1, January 1876.
• " Logic and the Elements of Geometry ", Mind, Vol 1 No. 1, January 1876.