Scottish Philosophy after the Enlightenment : : Essays in Pursuit of a Tradition / / Gordon Graham.

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• VerfasserIn: Graham, Gordon,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Scottish Philosophy : ESSP
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Highlights the continued flourishing of Scottish philosophy after the Scottish Enlightenment by exploring the work of underappreciated figures and themes Engages with philosophical issues including the science of human nature, realism versus idealism, the relation of metaphysics and psychology, the impact of evolutionary biology on religious thinking, and the recurrent debate between theism and agnosticismDraws attention to an important set of typically overlooked Scottish philosophers working after the golden age of Hume, Smith and ReidIntegrates cultural history and philosophical inquiryBeginning with Sir William Hamilton’s revitalisation 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Series Editor’s Introduction -- A Note on Women in Scottish Philosophy: Mrs Oliphant -- A Chronology of Scottish Philosophy after the Enlightenment -- 1. An Autobiographical Prologue -- 2. Sir William Hamilton and the Revitalisation of Scottish Philosophy -- 3. James Frederick Ferrier and the Course of Scottish Philosophy -- 4. Psychology and Moral Philosophy: Alexander Bain -- 5. Thomas Carlyle and the Philosophy of Rhetoric -- 6. Hegelianism and its Critics -- 7. Scottish Philosophy’s Progress -- 8. Religion, Evolution and Scottish Philosophy -- 9. The Gifford Lectures and the Re-affirmation of Theism: Alexander Campbell Fraser -- 10. The Culmination of Scottish Philosophy: A. S. Pringle-Pattison -- 11. John Macmurray and the Self as Agent -- Bibliography -- Index