Robert Merrihew Adams FBA (September 8, 1937 – April 16, 2024) was an American analytic philosopher.

As chairman, he helped revive the philosophy department[1] after its near-collapse due to personal and scholarly conflicts between analytical and Continental philosophers.

[2] Adams retired from Yale in 2004 and taught part-time at the University of Oxford in England, where he was a senior research fellow of Mansfield College.

In 2009 he became a Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His work in the philosophy of religion includes influential essays on the problem of evil and the relation between theism and ethics.