Alfred Edward Taylor

Alfred Edward Taylor (1869–1945) was a British Idealist and professor of philosophy. His greatest contributions lay in historical research and his sympathetic treatment of the works of Plato. Taylor spent much of his life teaching at the University of St. Andrews (1908–1924) and the University of Edinburgh (1924–1941) where he defended Platonism against the various anti-Idealistic strains of Oxford and Cambridge.