Scottish philosophy after the Enlightenment /

Beginning with Sir William Hamilton's revitalization of philosophy in Scotland in the 1830s, Gordon Graham takes up the theme of George Davie's The Democratic Intellect and explores a century of debates surrounding the identity and continuity of the Scottish philosophical tradition. Gordon...

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Main Author: Graham, Gordon (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022].
Series:Edinburgh studies in Scottish philosophy.
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Summary:Beginning with Sir William Hamilton's revitalization of philosophy in Scotland in the 1830s, Gordon Graham takes up the theme of George Davie's The Democratic Intellect and explores a century of debates surrounding the identity and continuity of the Scottish philosophical tradition. Gordon Graham identifies a host of once-prominent but now neglected thinkers, such as Alexander Bain, J. F. Ferrier, Thomas Carlyle, Alexander Campbell Fraser, John Tulloch, Henry Jones, Henry Calderwood, David Ritchie and Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison, whose reactions to Hume and Reid stimulated new currents of ideas. Graham concludes by considering the relation between the Scottish philosophical tradition and the 20th-century philosopher John Macmurray.
Physical Description:xvii, 254 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240) and index.
ISBN:1399500902
9781399500906