Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment

Herausgeber: Bow, C B

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Produktbeschreibung

Common sense philosophy was one of the Scottish Enlightenment's most original intellectual products. The nine specially written essays in this volume explore the philosophical and historical significance of this school of thought, recovering the ways in which it developed during the long eighteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780198783909
• ISBN-10: 0198783906
• Artikelnr.: 50906188

Autorenporträt

Bradford Bow is Assistant Professor of Intellectual History at Yonsei University. He held postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, the Huntington Library, and a teaching fellowship in the History of Enlightenment at Edinburgh University. His research interests revolve around the intellectual and cultural history of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world with a particular emphasis on Enlightenment(s).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment
* 1: Giovanni Gellera: Common Sense and Ideal Theory in Seventeenth
Century Scottish Philosophy
* 2: Gordon Graham: Was Reid a Moral Realist?
* 3: Claire Etchegaray: Reid on Our Mental Constitution
* 4: Giovanni B. Grandi: On the Ancestry of Reid's Inquiry: Stewart,
Fearn, and Reid's Early Manuscripts
* 5: Esther Engel Kroeker: Reid's Response to Hume's Moral Atheism:
Reid on Morality, Common Sense, and Theism
* 6: R. J. W. Mills: The Common Sense of a Poet: James Beattie's Essay
on Truth (1770)
* 7: James A. Harris: Hume and the Common Sense Philosophers
* 8: Paul B. Wood: The 'New Empire of Common Sense': The Reception of
Common Sense Philosophy in Britain, 1764-1793
* 9: C. B. Bow: Dugald Stewart and the Legacy of Common Sense in the
Scottish Enlightenment