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Studies in the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment

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ISBN-10: 0198249667

ISBN-13: 9780198249665

Edition: 1990

Authors: M. A. Stewart

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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.
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Book details

List price: $64.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/7/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 340
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

M A Stewart is Professor Emeritus of the History of Philosophy at the University of Lancaster, Honorary Research Professor at the University of Aberdeen, and Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.

Introduction
Science and Moral Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment
The Two Systems of Francis Hutcheson: On the Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment
Natural Law and Moral Realism: The Scottish Synthesis
Professors of Virtue: The Social History of the Edinburgh Moral Philosophy Chair in the Eighteenth Century
Science and the Pursuit of Virtue in the Aberdeen Enlightenment
Hume and the Culture of Science in the Early Eighteenth Century
Hume's `Of Miracles': Probability and Irreligion
Hume and Berkeley's Three Dialogues
Metaphysics and Physiology: Mind, Body, and the Animal Economy in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Reviews of: Scepticism and Reasonable Doubt by M. Jamie Ferreira and The Mind of God and the Works of Man by Edward Craig