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65. ‘The Happiest and Most Honourable Period of My Life’: Adam Smith’s Service to the University of GlasgowIn R. J. W. Mills & Craig Smith (eds.), The Scottish Enlightenment: Human Nature, Social Theory and Moral Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Christopher J. Berry, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 115-131. 2021.
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5Adam Smith: his life, thought, and legacy (edited book)Princeton University Press. 2016.The essential guide to the life, thought, and legacy of Adam Smith Adam Smith (1723–90) is perhaps best known as one of the first champions of the free market and is widely regarded as the founding father of capitalism. From his ideas about the promise and pitfalls of globalization to his steadfast belief in the preservation of human dignity, his work is as relevant today as it was in the eighteenth century. Here, Ryan Hanley brings together some of the world's finest scholars from across a vari…Read more
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4Adam Smith: From Love to SympathyRevue Internationale de Philosophie 269 (3): 251-273. 2014.Adam Smith has long been regarded as a champion of sympathy. More recently he has also been regarded as a critic of love. But how do these two sides of his thought cohere? This article argues that Smith’s defense of sympathy emerges directly out of and is indeed decisively shaped by his critique of love. Yet seeing this requires reconsidering what Smith understood love to be, as well as what he understood sympathy to be. What follows thus offers a reexamination of Smith’s well-known treatment of…Read more
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1Magnanimity and Modernity: Self-Love in the Scottish EnlightenmentDissertation, The University of Chicago. 2002.David Hume and Adam Smith are often regarded as founding fathers of modern social science and champions of self-interested material acquisitiveness. Against this view I argue that their moral and political philosophies are better understood as modern installments in the classical tradition of virtue ethics. By focusing on Hume and Smith's conception of self-love and particularly on their distinction of self-love from self-interest, I demonstrate their dedication to encouraging virtues beyond the…Read more
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Hume and Smith on Moral PhilosophyIn Lorne Falkenstein (ed.), Hume and the Contemporary 'Common Sense' Critique of Hume, Oxford University Press. 2016.Scholars of eighteenth-century Scottish philosophy today tend to agree that Adam Smith, while deeply indebted to Hume, was also engaged in a comprehensive and creative transformation and extension of certain of Hume’s fundamental concepts. But what exactly did Smith take from Hume, and precisely how did he transform these concepts? This chapter traces Smith’s appropriation and transformation along five fronts: sympathy and humanity, justice and utility, judgment and impartiality, virtue and comm…Read more
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Adam Smith's seventeenth-century French theological sourcesIn Jordan J. Ballor & Cornelis van der Kooi (eds.), Theology, morality and Adam Smith, Routledge. 2022.
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Adam Smith : history and impartialityIn Aaron Garrett & James Anthony Harris (eds.), Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford University Press. 2015.
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Justice and politics in the Enquiry concerning the principles of moralsIn Esther Engels Kroeker & Willem Lemmens (eds.), Hume's an Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals : A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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Kant's Sexual ContractJournal of Politics 76 914-27. 2014.Kant's views on sex and marriage deserve the renewed attention of political scientists for three reasons. First, Kant's theory of marriage was shaped by his engagement with Rousseau's political thought and especially his Social Contract—a key if unappreciated side of his engagement with Rousseau. Second, Kant's application of Rousseau's political theory to marriage suggests an egalitarian view of marriage's nature and function that helpfully illuminates marriage's role in a liberal society of fr…Read more
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Marquette UniversityRegular Faculty
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |