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Essays on David Hume, medical men and the Scottish Enlightenment : industry, knowledge and humanity / Roger L. Emerson.
Van Pelt Library B1402.E55 E44 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Emerson, Roger L.
- Series:
- Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Scottish--18th century.
- Philosophy, Scottish.
- Enlightenment--Scotland.
- Enlightenment.
- Scotland.
- Scotland--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Intellectual life.
- Hume, David, 1711-1776.
- Hume, David.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 295 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
- Contents:
- The world in which the Scottish Enlightenment took shape
- Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll (1682-1761) : patronage and the creation of the Scottish Enlightenment
- How many Scots were enlightened?
- What did eighteenth-century Scottish students read?
- Our excellent and never to be forgotten friend : David Hume (26 April 1711- 25 August 1776)
- Hume's intellectual development : part II
- Hume's histories
- A note on Hume and political economy
- Numbering the medics
- What is to be done about the Scottish Enlightenment?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780754666288
- 075466628X
- OCLC:
- 245598160
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