David Hume and the Aberdeen Philosophers - Reid, Campbell, Gerard, Beattie

Rediscovers David Hume's contemporary critics to systematically investigate the merits of Thomas Reid, George Campbell, Alexander Gerard and James Beattie.

About the author

Gordon Graham is Director of the Edinburgh Sacred Arts Festival. He previously taught philosophy at the University of St Andrews, University of Aberdeen, and Princeton Theological Seminary. The author of twenty books on a wide range of subjects in aesthetics, politics and moral philosophy, he has also published extensively on the Scottish philosophical tradition. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and winner of an Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society Lifetime Achievement Award, he was founding editor of the Journal of Scottish Philosophy and general editor of the Oxford History of Scottish Philosophy. His books include Scottish Philosophy after the Enlightenment (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).

Product details

• Authors: Gordon Graham, Gordon (Princeton Theological Seminary) Graham
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.05.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781399541619
• ISBN: 978-1-399-54161-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Scottish Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day