[1] He gave this up, and after winning the Shaw Fellowship he spent a year at Trinity College, Cambridge where he took Part II of the Moral Sciences Tripos.
After two years he was appointed to a professorship at University College Cardiff, succeeding Andrew Seth as Professor of Logic and Philosophy.
[4] He received the honorary degree Legum Doctor (LLD) from the University of Edinburgh in March 1900,[5] and was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1905.
He thought that moral values are objective, a view he explains in his Gifford lectures and in his early work on the ethics of naturalism.
Sorley was persistently hostile to any presence of women in Cambridge and argued that they were not after equality but sought power and would damage university life.