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In this second volume on the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, a team of leading experts explore philosophical method, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mind, as well as the teaching of philosophy in Scottish universities and Scottish achievements in the science of the mind.
List of contents
- 1: Thomas Ahnert: The Philosophy Curriculum at Scottish Universities in the Eighteenth Century
- 2: Tamas Demeter: Philosophical Methods
- 3: Timothy Yenter: The Metaphysical Implications of Newtonianism
- 4: Giovanni Grandi: Theories of Perception
- 5: Lorne Falkenstein: The Intellectual Powers of the Human Mind
- 6: Ruth Boeker: The Active Powers of the Human Mind
- 7: John P. Wright and Kathryn Tabb: Habit and the Association of Ideas in the Scottish Enlightenment
- 8: Joseph Shieber: Language
About the author
Aaron Garrett is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He specializes in the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy.
James A. Harris is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He completed his DPhil at Oxford under the supervision of Galen Strawson, and was a Gifford Research Fellow at Glasgow and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford. He has written and published widely on eighteenth-century British philosophy, and has edited texts by Reid (with Knud Haakonssen), Beattie, Kames, and Abraham Tucker. He was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2012-13), and in 2018 gave the Benedict Lectures in the History of Political Philosophy at Boston University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Summary
A History of Scottish Philosophy is a series of collaborative studies by expert authors, each volume being devoted to a specific period. Together they provide a comprehensive account of the Scottish philosophical tradition, from the centuries that laid the foundation of the remarkable burst of intellectual fertility known as the Scottish Enlightenment, through the Victorian age and beyond, when it continued to exercise powerful intellectual influence at home and abroad. The books aim to be historically informative, while at the same time serving to renew philosophical interest in the problems with which the Scottish philosophers grappled and in the solutions they proposed.
This is a companion volume to Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Volume I. Where Volume I covered Scottish Enlightenment contributions to morals, politics, art, and religion, this second volume covers philosophical method, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mind. It includes a comprehensive account of the teaching of philosophy in Scottish universities in the eighteenth century. Particular attention is given to Scottish achievements in the science of the mind in chapters on perception, the intellectual powers, the active powers, habit and the association of ideas, and language.
