The Scotch Metaphysics: A Century of Enlightenment in Scotland

by George E. Davie

Overview

Focusing on the works of Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart, Sir William Hamilton, Thomas Brown and James Frederick Ferrier, this book offers a definitive account of an important philosophical movement, and represents a ground-breaking contribution to scholarship in the area. Essential reading for philosophers or anyone with an interest in the history of philosophical thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415862844
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/20/2015
Series:	Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

George Davie D.Litt, FRSE, D.h.c. is the author of The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and her Universities in the Nineteenth Century, The Crisis of the Democratic Intellect and two volumes of essays on the Scottish Enlightenment. He is Emeritus Reader in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and recipient of the Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun Award for services to Scotland.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Select bibliography of works referred to in the text x

Introduction: the historical context 1

1 Hume and the Rankenian Society 10

2 Reid (1) 41

3 Reid (2) 75

4 Stewart 98

5 Brown, Hamilton and Ferrier (1) 117

6 Brown, Hamilton and Ferrier (2) 171

Index 236

Editorial Reviews

'It is of historical interest - a significant step in the historiography of the Scottish Enlightenment.' - Journal of Scottish Philosophy

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