FOWLER, THOMAS (1832-1904), English philosopher, was born on Sept. I, 1832, at Burton-Stather, Lincs., and was educated at Merton college, Oxford. In 1855 he was ordained, and became fellow and tutor of Lincoln college, in 1873 professor of logic, in 1881 president of Corpus Christi college, and in 1899 vice-chancellor of the university, an office which he held for two years. He died at Oxford on Nov. 20, 1904.
Fowler's chief works are : The Elements of Deductive Logic (1867; loth ed., 1892) ; The Elements of Inductive Logic (18 70 6th ed., 1892) ; Locke in "Eng. Men of Letters" series (188o) ; Bacon's Novum Organum (1889) ; Locke's Conduct of the Under standing (3rd ed., 1890) ; Francis Bacon (1881) ; Shaftesbury and Hutcheson in "Eng. Philosophers" series (188 2) ; History of Corpus Christi College (1898), and Principles of Morals (1885 87) with J. M. Wilson.