M. A. Stewart (ed.)

Oxford Studies in the History of Philosophy

Herausgeber: Stewart, M. A.

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of new papers on Scottish philosophy in the age of Hutcheson and Hume pays close attention to the study of context and the use of original historical sources as a key to philosophical interpretation. The book includes revolutionary new research on Hume's early reading in science and religion and its impact of his thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780198249665
• ISBN-10: 0198249667
• Artikelnr.: 22418278

Autorenporträt

M. A. Stewart is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Lancaster, but does not want his affiliation listed in publicity materials. Refer to him as Editor of Oxford Studies in Philosophy. 1993 - new affiliation is Professor of the History of Philosophy, University of Lancaster

Inhaltsangabe

M. A. Stewart: Introduction; Roger L. Emerson: Science and Moral Philosophy
in the Scottish Enlightenment; James Moore: The Two Systems of Francis
Hutcheson: On the Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment; Knud Haakonssen:
Natural Law and Moral Realism: The Scottish Synthesis; Richard B. Sher:
Professors of Virtue: The Social History of the Edinburgh Moral Philosophy
Chair in the Eighteenth Century; P. B. Wood: Science and the Pursuit of
Virtue in the Aberdeen Enlightenment; Michael Barfoot: Hume and the Culture
of Science in the Early Eighteenth Century; David Wootton: Hume's `Of
Miracles': Probability and Irreligion; David R. Raynor: Hume and Berkeley's
Three Dialogues; John P. Wright: Metaphysics and Physiology: Mind, Body,
and the Animal Economy in Eighteenth-Century Scotland; John W. Yolton:
Reviews of: Scepticism and Reasonable Doubt by M. Jamie Ferreira and The
Mind of God and the Works of Man by Edward Craig