British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Robert Adams
Senior Research Fellow, Mansfield College, Oxford

Year elected: 2006

He has done very important work in philosophy of religion, ethics, the history of modern philosophy, and metaphysics, and his papers are substantial contributions to the literature of each of these topics. His book on Leibniz (1994) made him one of the leading historians of early modern philosophy, and his subsequent writings, no less careful and challenging, have become part of the literature of the subject.