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Thomas Brown : selected philosophical writings / edited and introduced by Thomas Dixon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Thomas, 1778-1820.
- Series:
- Library of Scottish philosophy ; v. 9.
- Library of Scottish philosophy ; 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Scottish--19th century.
- Philosophy, Scottish.
- Brown, Thomas, 1778-1820.
- Brown, Thomas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Exeter, UK ; Charlottesville, Va. : Imprint Academic, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Thomas Brown (1778-1820), Professor of Moral Philosophy in Edinburgh, was among the most prominent and widely read British philosophers of the first half of the nineteenth century. An influential interpreter of both Hume and Reid, Brown provided a bridge between the Scottish school of 'Common Sense' and the later positivism of John Stuart Mill and others.The selections in this volume illustrate Brown's original ideas about mental science, cause and effect, emotions and ethics. They are prec...
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Copyright page; Series Editor's Note; Body matter; I: Introduction; II: Observations; III: Inquiry; IV: Sketch; V: Lectures; Back matter; Also available
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 24-30) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-84540-434-3
- 1-283-69303-8
- 1-84540-435-1
- OCLC:
- 817898411
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