William Duncan (philosopher)

William Duncan (1717 in Aberdeen – 1760 in Aberdeen) was a Scottish natural philosopher and classicist, professor of natural philosophy at Marischal College, Aberdeen.

The elements of logic, 1811

Educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, he was appointed professor of natural philosophy there in 1752. His popular Elements of Logic, first published in Robert Dodsley's The Preceptor (2 vols, London, 1748), combined a Lockean theory of knowledge with syllogistic logic.[1] He translated the Commentaries of Julius Caesar and orations of Cicero; at his death, translations of Plutarch's Lives and a continuation of Thomas Blackwell's Court of Augustus were left unfinished.[2]

Works

Elements of Logic, 1748
The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated, 1753
Cicero's Select Orations, 1756

References

Haakonssen, Knud (2006), "Duncan, William", in Haakonssen, Knud (ed.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, 2, Cambridge University Press, p. 1166
John Westby-Gibson, ‘Duncan, William (1717–1760)’, rev. Patrick Bullard, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009, accessed 6 Dec 2009

External links

Works by or about William Duncan in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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[CHECP-1] Haakonssen, Knud (2006), "Duncan, William", in Haakonssen, Knud (ed.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, 2, Cambridge University Press, p. 1166

[2] John Westby-Gibson, ‘Duncan, William (1717–1760)’, rev. Patrick Bullard, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009, accessed 6 Dec 2009