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Zusatztext `superbly planned and meticulously edited volume'English Historical Review Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This is the first volume of the series Oxford Studies in the History of Philosophy. Each volume of the series is organized around a particular theme, and is cross-disciplinary in its approach. In this collection of substantial new studies in Scottish Philosophy in the age of Hutcheson and Hume, close attention is given to the study of context and the use of original historical sources as a key to philosophical interpretation. The collection includes revolutionary research on Hume's early reading in science and religion and its impact on his philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
