Edward Caird FRSE (March 23, 1835 — November 1, 1908) was a Scottish philosopher and younger brother of the theologian John Caird.
The son of engineer John Caird, the proprietor of Caird & Company, Edward was born at Greenock in Renfrewshire, and educated at Greenock Academy and the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford (BA 1863), where he became Fellow and Tutor of Merton College. In 1866, he was appointed to the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, which he held until 1893. In that year he became Master of Balliol College, from which he retired in 1907.
His more important works include Critical Philosophy of Kant (1877), Hegel (1883), Evolution of Religion, Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte (1885), and Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers (1904).
The Collected Works of Edward Caird, 12 vols., ed. Colin Tyler, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1999
A Critical Account of the Philosophy of Kant, with an Historical Introduction, Glasgow: J. Maclehose, 1877
Hegel, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co.; Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1883
The Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte, Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1885; New York: Macmillan, 1885
The Critical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1889; New York: Macmillan, 1889 (2 vols.)
Essays on Literature and Philosophy, Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1892 (2 vols.)
The Evolution of Religion, Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1893; New York: Macmillan, 1893 (Gifford Lectures 1890-92; I, II)
The Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers, Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1904 (Gifford Lectures, 1900-02; I, II)
Pamphlets
The Problem of Philosophy at the Present Time: an Introductory Address Delivered to the Philosophical Society of the University of Edinburgh, Glasgow, James Maclehose & Sons, 1881
The Moral Aspect of the Economical Problem: Presidential Address to the Ethical Society, London, Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1888
Address on Plato's Republic as the Earliest Educational Treatise, Bangor: Jarvis & Foster, 1894
Idealism and the Theory of Knowledge, London: Henry Frowde, 1903
Lay Sermons and Addresses, Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons; New York: Macmillan, 1907