Common sense in the Scottish Enlightenment / edited by Charles Bradford Bow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bow, Charles Bradford, editor.

Series:

Mind Association occasional series.

Mind Association occasional series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enlightenment--Scotland.

Enlightenment.

Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796.

Reid, Thomas.

Hume, David, 1711-1776.

Hume, David.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Common sense philosophy was one of the Scottish Enlightenment's most original intellectual products. The nine specially written essays in this volume explore the philosophical and historical significance of this school of thought, recovering the ways in which it developed during the long eighteenth century.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-108649-5

0-19-182655-3

0-19-108648-7