Robert Merrihew Adams

**Robert Merrhew Adams** FBA (Satumba 8, 1937 - Afrilu 16, 2024) masanin falsafar nazari ne na Amurka. Ya ƙware a fannin metaphysics, falsafar addini, ɗabi'a, da kuma tarihin falsafar zamani ta farko .

## Rayuwa da aiki
An haifi Adams a ranar 8 ga Satumba, 1937, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ya koyar na tsawon shekaru da yawa a Jami'ar California, Los Angeles, kafin ya koma Jami'ar Yale a farkon shekarun 1990 a matsayin Farfesa Clark na Falsafar Ɗabi'a da Metaphysics. A matsayinsa na shugaba, ya taimaka wajen farfaɗo da sashen falsafar  bayan kusan rugujewa sakamakon rikice-rikicen kai da na ilimi tsakanin masana falsafa na nazari da na nahiyar .  Adams ya yi ritaya daga Yale a shekarar 2004 kuma ya koyar na ɗan lokaci a Jami'ar Oxford da ke Ingila, inda ya kasance babban jami'in bincike na Kwalejin Mansfield . A shekarar 2009 ya zama Farfesa Mai Daraja na Bincike na Falsafa a Jami'ar North Carolina da ke Chapel Hill .

Marigayiyar matar Adams, Marilyn McCord Adams, ita ma ƙwararriyar masaniyar falsafa ce, tana aiki a kan falsafar zamanin da da falsafar addini, kuma ita ce Farfesa Regius na Allahntaka a Cocin Christ, Oxford . A shekarar 2013, dukkansu sun zama farfesoshi masu ziyara a Jami'ar Rutgers, tare da haɗin gwiwar kafa Cibiyar False far Addini ta Rutgers. 

Adams tsohon shugaban ƙungiyar Falsafa ta Kirista ne. A shekarar 1999, ya gabatar da laccoci na Gifford kan "Allah da Kasancewa". An zaɓe shi a matsayin memba na Kwalejin Burtaniya a shekarar 2006  kuma an zaɓe shi a matsayin memba na Kwalejin Fasaha da Kimiyya ta Amurka a shekarar 1991. 

Adams ya mutu a Montgomery, New Jersey, a ranar 16 ga Afrilu, 2024, yana da shekaru 86.  

## Aikin falsafa
A matsayinsa na masanin tarihi, Adams ya wallafa a kan ayyukan masana falsafa Søren Kierkegaard da GW Leibniz . Ayyukansa a fannin falsafar addini sun haɗa da rubuce-rubuce masu tasiri kan matsalar mugunta da alaƙar da ke tsakanin akida da ɗabi'a . A fannin metaphysics, Adams ya kare ainihin akida a fannin metaphysics na tsari da kuma Platonism game da yanayin abin da ake kira duniyoyi masu yiwuwa .

## Zaɓaɓɓun ayyuka

* . Reprinted in *The Virtue of Faith and Other Essay in Philosophical Theology* below.
* "A Modified Divine Command Theory of Ethical Wrongness" in *Religion and Morality: A Collection of Essays*. eds. Gene Outka and John P. Reeder. New York: Doubleday. Reprinted in  *The Virtue of Faith*.
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* "Actualism and Thisness", *Synthèse*, XLIX 3–41. 1981.
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* *The Virtue of Faith and Other Essays in Philosophical Theology*. New York: Oxford University Press. 1987.
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* "Divine Commands and the Social Nature of Obligation" *Faith and Philosophy*, 1987.
* "The Knight of Faith", *Faith and Philosophy*, 1990.
* "Moral Faith", *Journal of Philosophy*, 1995.
* *Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist*. New York: Oxford. 1994.
* "Things in Themselves", *Philosophy and Phenomenological Research*, 1997.
* *Finite and Infinite Goods*. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999.
* *A Theory of Virtue: Excellence in Being for the Good*. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2006.
* *What Is, and What Is In Itself: A Systematic Ontology*. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

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