The Scotch Metaphysics: A Century of Enlightenment in Scotland [Paperback]

Focusing on the works of Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart, Sir William Hamilton, Thomas Brown and James Frederick Ferrier, this book offers a definitive account of an important philosophical movement, and represents a ground-breaking contribution to scholarship in the area. Essential reading for philosophers or anyone with an interest in the history of philosophical thought.With its bold and controversial argument, The Scotch Metaphysics will be of essential interest to any serious scholar of eighteenth century philosophy.'It is of historical interest - a significant step in the historiography of the Scottish Enlightenment.' - Journal of Scottish Philosophy'There emerges a clear and engaging picture of not merely a continuing philoshopical enterprise, but an intellectual community and a philosophical tradition.'- Gordon Graham, Eighteenth Century Scotland

'Davie's book provides a welcome corrective to the almost obsessive confinement of Scottish philosophy to the period of the Enlightenment.' - Gordon Graham, Eighteenth Century Scotland

'It is of historical interest - a significant step in the historiography of the Scottish Enlightenment.' - Journal of Scottish PhilosophyIntroduction; Chapter 1 Hume and the Rankenian Society; Chapter 2 Reid (1); Chapter 3 Reid (2); Chapter 4 Stewart; Chapter 5 Brown, Hamilton and Ferrier (1); Chapter 6 Brown, Hamilton and Ferrier (2) Index;George Davie D.Litt, FRSE, D.h.c. is the author of The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and her Universities in the Nineteenth Century, The Crisis of the Democratic Intellect and two volumes of essays on the Scottish Enlightenment. He is Emeritus Reader in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and recipient of the Andrew Fletcher of Saltoulc…