Marilyn McCord Adams
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The Reverend Marilyn McCord Adams |
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Marilyn McCord October 12, 1943 United States |
| Died | March 22, 2017 (aged 73) Princeton, New Jersey, United States |
| Cause of death | Cancer |
| Nationality | American |
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| Spouse(s) | Robert Merrihew Adams (m. 1966) |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
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Marilyn McCord Adams (October 12, 1943 – March 22, 2017) was an American philosopher and priest of the Episcopal Church. She specialised in philosophy of religion, philosophical theology and medieval philosophy.
Adams was the daughter of William Clark McCord and Wilmah Brown McCord. In 1966, she married the philosopher Robert Merrihew Adams.
Adams was educated at the University of Illinois (AB); Cornell University (PhD 1967); and Princeton Theological Seminary (ThM 1984, 1985); and holds the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Oxford (2008).
Adams was Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. Before that she was, in reverse chronological order, Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University, the Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale University, and a Professor of Philosophy at UCLA. She was also a former President of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2015.
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