Introduction

Abstract

John Grote will remain best known by reason of the thought formulated in the Exploratio Philosophica, or Rough Notes on Modern Intellectual Science. To the philosophical world of his own time he was well known as the teacher who ably held the chair of Moral Philosophy in the University of Cambridge from 1855 until the year of his death, 1866, in succession to the Knightbridge Professor, William Whewell whose Philosophy of Science is the subject of at least one chapter of the Exploratio Philosophica.