Adams, E. M. (Elie Maynard), 1919-2003
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Elie Maynard Adams, philosopher; assistant professor-Kenan Professor of Philosophy, 1948-1979; and chair of the faculty, 1976-1979, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
From the description of E. M. Adams papers, 1937-1997 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 35923003
Personal:
Born 29 December 1919, Clarkton, Va.
Parents: Wade Hampton and Bessie Calloway Adams.
Married Phyllis Margaret Stevenson, 22 December 1942.
Two children.
Education:
B.A., 1941, M.A., 1944, University of Richmond, Richmond, Va.
B.D., 1944, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, Rochester, N.Y.
M.A., 1947, Ph.D., 1948, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Career:
Ohio University 1947-1948 Assistant professor of philosophy
University of North Carolina
1948-1953 Assistant professor of philosophy
1951-1952 Director, Free World Institute
1953-1958 Associate professor of philosophy
1958-1971 Professor of philosophy
1966 (summer) Visiting professor of philosophy, University of Southern California
1960-1965 Chair, Dept. of Philosophy
1970-1972 Director, Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense
1971 (summer) Visiting professor of philosophy, State University of New York at Albany
1971-1990 Kenan professor of philosophy
1976-1979 Chair of the Faculty
1977 (summer) Visiting professor of philosophy, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1990- Kenan professor of philosophy emeritus
1994-1995 Nelson Ferebee Taylor professor of philosophy
Books:
Fundamentals of General Logic, 1954
Logic Problems, 1954
Language of Value (with others), 1957
Ethical Naturalism and the Modern World View, 1960
Categorical Analysis: Selected Essays of Everett W. Hall, ed.
Common Sense Realism: Critical Essays on the Philosophy of Everett W. Hall, ed., Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 4 (fall), 1966
Philosophy and the Modern Mind, 1975
The Idea of America (with others), 1977
The Metaphysics of Self and World: Toward a Humanistic Philosophy, 1991
Religion and Cultural Freedom, 1993
A Society Fit for Human Beings, 1997
From the guide to the E. M. Adams Papers, 1937-1997, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)
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