Robert M. Adams, Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Yale University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has died.

Professor Adams was very well-known for his work in philosophy of religion, ethics, metaphysics, and the history of modern philosophy.

He is the author of What is, and What is in Itself: A Systematic Ontology (2022), A Theory of Virtue: Excellence in Being for the Good (2006), Finite and Infinite Goods: A Framework for Ethics (1999), Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist (1994), and The Virtue of Faith and Other Essays in Philosophical Theology (1987), among many works, including over 100 articles. You can learn more about his writings here. 

Professor Adams joined the Department of Philosophy at UNC Chapel Hill in 2009. He had retired from Yale in 2004 after eleven years there, and in the intervening years held positions at Oxford University. Prior to joining Yale, he spent over two decades at UCLA. Before that, he was a lecturer and assistant professor at the University of Michigan. He earned his MA and PhD in philosophy at Cornell, a BD from Princeton Theological Seminary, a BA and MA from Oxford University, and an AB from Princeton University.

Over his career he was the recipient of many honors, including being elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy.

His wife, philosopher Marilyn McCord Adams, died in 2017.

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