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This is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the full range of philosophical writing in Britain in the eighteenth century. A team of experts provides new accounts of both major and lesser-known thinkers, and explores the diverse approaches in the period to logic and metaphysics, the passions, morality, criticism, and politics.
List of contents
- Introduction
- PART 1: THE LANGUAGES OF PHILOSOPHY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN
- 1: TIMOTHY STANTON: Locke and his legacy
- 2: ERIC SCHLIESSER: Newton and Newtonianism in eighteenth-century British thought
- 3: JACQUELINE TAYLOR: The idea of a science of human nature
- 4: PADDY BULLARD: Rhetoric and eloquence: the language of persuasion
- PART 2: LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS
- 5: REBECCA COPENHAVER: Perception and the Language of Nature
- 6: LAURENT JAFFRO: Language and thought
- 7: JOHN P. WRIGHT: The understanding
- 8: AARON GARRETT: Mind and matter
- PART 3: THE PASSIONS
- 9: AMY SCHMITTER: Passions, affections, sentiments: taxonomy and terminology
- 10: TERENCE CUNEO: Reason and the passions
- 11: SEAN GREENBERG: Liberty and necessity
- 12: JAMES A. HARRIS: The government of the passions
- PART 4: MORALS
- 13: CHRISTIAN MAURER: Self-interest and sociability
- 14: P. J. E. KAIL: Moral judgment
- 15: Dario Perinetti: The nature of virtue
- 16: COLIN HEYDT: Practical ethics
- PART 5: CRITICISM
- 17: PAUL GUYER: The pleasures of the imagination and the objects of taste
- 18: TIMOTHY M. COSTELLOE: The faculty of taste
- 19: EVA DADLEZ: The pleasures of tragedy
- 20: PETER KIVY: Genius and the creative imagination
- PART 6: POLITICS
- 21: DARIO CASTIGLIONE: The origin of civil government
- 22: CRAIG SMITH: Forms of government
- 23: NEIL McARTHUR: Reform and revolution
- 24: RICHARD WHATMORE: Luxury, commerce, and the rise of political economy
- PART 7: PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
- 25: PAUL RUSSELL: Causation, cosmology, and the limits of philosophy: the early eighteenth-century British debate
- 26: ALEXANDER BROADIE: Philosophy, revealed religion, and 'The Enlightenment'
- 27: THOMAS AHNERT: Religion and morality
About the author
James A. Harris is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Of Liberty and Necessity: The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy (OUP, 2005), and of articles on Hume, Hutcheson, Reid, Beattie, Priestley, and a number of themes in eighteenth-century British thought. He has edited texts by Reid, Beattie, Kames, and Abraham Tucker. He is writing an intellectual biography of Hume for Cambridge University Press, and also the eighteenth-century British philosophy volume of the new Oxford History of Philosophy.
Summary
This is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the full range of philosophical writing in Britain in the eighteenth century. A team of experts provides new accounts of both major and lesser-known thinkers, and explores the diverse approaches in the period to logic and metaphysics, the passions, morality, criticism, and politics.
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Highly recommended.
