Alexander Broadie was born on 18 October 1942 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His work, A History of Scottish Philosophy (2009), was named Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year. After completing a PhD at the University of Glasgow, he joined the philosophy department in 1967. In 1991, he was appointed to a personal chair, and in 1995, was made Professor of Logic and Rhetoric, a position once held by Adam Smith. After retiring in 2009, Broadie has been Honorary Professorial Research Fellow and Principal Investigator on a Leverhulme Trust International Network grant.
Appointed Henry Duncan Prize Lecturer in Scottish Studies at the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1990, he was also made Fellow in 1991. He holds honorary degrees from Glasgow and Blaise Pascal University. Broadie’s major works include A Samaritan Philosophy (1981), George Lokert (1983), The Circle of John Mair (1985), Introduction to Medieval Logic (1987), Paul of Venice (1990), The Scottish Enlightenment: An Anthology (1997), Thomas Reid on Logic Rhetoric and the Fine Arts (2005), and George Tumbull’s Principles of Moral and Christian Philosophy (2005).
