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Sir William David Ross KBE FBA (15 April 1877 – 5 May 1971) usually cited as W. D. Ross was a Scottish philosopher known for his work in ethics. His best known work is The Right and the Good (1930) and he is perhaps best known for developing a pluralist deontological form of intuitionist ethics in response to G.E. Moore’s intuitionism. However Ross also critically edited and translated a number of Aristotle’s works and wrote on Greek philosophy.

birth date
1877-04-15
birth place
Scotland, Thurso
death date
1971-05-05
death place
England, Oxford
era
20th-century philosophy
influenced
Bernard Gert, Tara Smith (philosopher), Robert Audi
influenced by
G. E. Moore, Immanuel Kant, Harold Arthur Prichard
main interest
Ethics, Ancient Greek philosophy
notableIdea
Prima facie, Deontological ethics
philosophicalSchool
Analytic philosophy

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