Arthur David Ritchie

Who was Arthur David Ritchie?

Arthur David Ritchie was a British philosopher.

Ritchie was educated at the University of St Andrews and the University of Cambridge. Trained as a chemist, he served in the Royal Naval Air Service in World War I. He was elected a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge with a dissertation on scientific method, but shortly afterwards moved to the University of Manchester, where he was appointed lecturer in biological chemistry in 1922 and lecturer in physiological chemistry in 1924. From 1937 to 1945 he held the Sir Samuel Hall chair of philosophy at Manchester. From 1945 to 1960 he held the chair of logic and metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh.