# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-david-ross
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:16:25.436Z

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name: "William David Ross"
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description: "Sir William David Ross, known as David Ross but usually cited as W. D. Ross, was a Scottish Aristotelian philosopher, translator, WWI veteran, civil servant, and university administrator. His best-known work is The Right and the Good (1930), in which he developed a pluralist, deontological form of intuitionist ethics in response to G. E. Moore's consequentialist form of intuitionism. Ross also critically edited and translated a number of Aristotle's works, such as his 12-volume translation of Aristotle together with John Alexander Smith, and wrote on other Greek philosophy."
tagline: "Scottish philosopher and translator (1877–1971)"
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birthDate: "1877-04-15"
deathDate: "1971-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump