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Scottish Philosophy in America
Library of Scottish Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
The Scottish Enlightenment provided the fledgling United States of America and its emerging universities with a philosophical orientation. For a hundred years or more, Scottish philosophers were both taught and emulated by professors at Princeton, Harvard and Yale, as well as newly founded colleges...
Adam Ferguson
Selected Philosophical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
A philosopher and historian, Adam Ferguson occupies a unique place within eighteenth-century Scottish thought. Distinguished by a moral and historical bent, his work is framed within a teleological outlook that upholds the importance of action and virtue.
Art and Enlightenment
Scottish Aesthetics in the 18th Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
During the intellectual and cultural flowering of Scotland in the 18th century few subjects attracted as much interest among men of letters as aesthetics - the study of art from the subjective perspective of human experience. All of the great philosophers of the age - Hutcheson, Hume, Smith and Reid...
Dugald Stewart
Selected Philosophical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Dugald Stewart was appointed assistant professor of mathematics in the University of Edinburgh in 1772, aged only 19. He became one of the most influential academics in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European ‘Republic of Letters’. Both Stewart’s contemporaries and modern scholars have...
by Jennifer Keefe
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
This volume contains selections from the philosophical writings of James Frederick Ferrier (18081864). Ferrier was the Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews between 1845 and 1864 and he was one of the earliest post-Hegelian British idealists. He develops a system of absolute...
Thomas Brown
Selected Philosophical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Thomas Brown (17781820), Professor of Moral Philosophy in Edinburgh, was among the most prominent and widely read British philosophers of the first half of the nineteenth century. An influential interpreter of both Hume and Reid, Brown provided a bridge between the Scottish school of 'Common Sense'...
History as Thought and Action
The Philosophies of Croce, Gentile, de Ruggiero and Collingwood
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
This is the first book-length study of the relationship between Benedetto Croce (1866-1952), Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944), Guido de Ruggiero (1888-1948) and Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943). Though the relationship between these highly influential philosophers has often been discussed, it has...
The Limits of Political Theory
Oakeshott's Philosophy of Civil Association
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This book examines Oakeshott’s political philosophy within the context of his more general conception of philosophical understanding. The book stresses the underlying continuity of his major writings on the subject and takes seriously the implications of understanding the world in terms of modality....
From a 'Necessary Evil' to the Art of Contingency
Michael Oakeshott's Conception of Political Activity
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This book presents a comprehensive study of Oakeshott's conception of political activity. The author first examines Oakeshott in the contexts of liberal, conservative and Idealist thought, and then presents a detailed interpretation of the change in his conception of politics in the context of British...
by Niall McCrae
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Lunacy, the legendary notion of minds unhinged by the moon, continues to captivate the popular imagination. Although it violates the assumptions of modern science and psychiatry, such belief remains common among mental health workers. Furthermore, several studies have found a small, unexplained correlation...
by John Haldane
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The essays in this book consist of revised versions of Victor Cook Memorial Lectures delivered in the universities of St. Andrews, London, Cambridge, Aberdeen, Oxford, Glasgow and Leeds.
by Corey Abel
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
This collection of recent scholarship on the thought of Michael Oakeshott includes essays by both distinguished and established authors as well as a fresh crop of younger talent. Together, they address the meanings of Oakeshott's conservatism through the lenses of his ideas on religion, history, and...
Politics and Neo-Darwinism
and Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This collection of essays is eclectic, covering certain political, ethical, cultural, and philosophical topics. But running through all the material is the evolutionary-naturalistic perspective stated in the opening essay, which gives the book its title. Another emphatic feature is a focus on the Western...
by Glenn Worthington
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Much of the scholarly attention attracted by Michael Oakeshott’s writings has focused upon his philosophical characterisation of the relations that constitute moral association in the modern world. A less noticed, but equally significant, aspect of Oakeshott’s moral philosophy is his account of...