Common sense in the Scottish Enlightenment /

"This book explores the philosophical and historical significance of common sense philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment. As one of eighteenth-century Scotland's most original intellectual products, the Scottish 'school' of common sense philosophy developed as a viable alternat...

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Other Authors: Bow, Charles Bradford (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First Edition.
Series:Mind Association occasional series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : common sense in the Scottish Enlightenment / C. B. Bow
  • Common sense and ideal theory in seventeenth-century Scottish philosophy / Giovanni Gellera
  • Was Reid a moral realist? / Gordon Graham
  • Reid on our mental constitution / Claire Etchegaray
  • On the ancestry of Reid's inquiry : Stewart, Fearn, and Reid's early manuscripts / Giovanni B. Grandi
  • A common sense response to Hume's moral atheism : Reid on morality and theism / Esther Engels Kroeker
  • The common sense of a poet : James Beattie's essay on truth (1770) / R . J . W. Mills
  • Hume and the common sense philosophers / James A. Harris
  • The "new empire of common sense" : the reception of common sense philosophy in Britain, 1764-1793 / Paul B. Wood
  • Dugald Stewart and the legacy of common sense in the Scottish Enlightenment / C. B. Bow.