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56Simon Grote, The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory: Religion and Morality in Enlightenment Germany and ScotlandJournal of Scottish Philosophy 17 (3): 248-252. 2019.
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82Stephen Cowley, Rational Piety and Social Reform in Glasgow: The Life, Philosophy, and Political Economy of James MylneJournal of Scottish Philosophy 14 (2): 172-174. 2016.
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187Adam Ferguson: History, Progress and Human Nature, edited by Eugene Heath and Vincenzo Merolle, London: Pickering and Chatto. 2008. 253pp. H/b. $99. ISBN 978-1-85196-864-0 (review)Journal of Scottish Philosophy 7 (1): 107-111. 2009.
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93Review of Jeffry H. Morrison: John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American RepublicJournal of Scottish Philosophy 3 (2): 190-193. 2005.
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124David Fordyce ,The Elements of Moral Philosophy with a Brief Account of the Nature, Progress, and Origin of Philosophy, with an introduction by Thomas D. Kennedy, Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003. xvii + 212 pp. Paperback, £8.95. ISBN: 0-86597-390-3Journal of Scottish Philosophy 2 (1): 100-101. 2004.
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104Review: Thomas Reid: Essays on the Active Powers of ManJournal of Scottish Philosophy 9 (2): 253-254. 2011.
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52Nicholas B. Miller, John Millar and the Scottish Enlightenment: Family Life and World HistoryJournal of Scottish Philosophy 16 (3): 283-286. 2018.
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48Philosophy, History and Politics: Studies in Contemporary English Philosophy of HistoryPhilosophical Quarterly 28 (111): 178-179. 1978.
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21Nature, Kant, and GodIn Govert J. Buijs & Annette K. Mosher (eds.), The Future of Creation Order: Vol. 2, Order Among Humans: Humanities, Social Science and Normative Practices, Springer Verlag. pp. 85-99. 2018.This paper draws on some lines of thought in Kant’s Critique of Judgment to construct an aesthetic counterpart to the moral argument for the existence of God that Kant formulates in the Critique of Practical Reason. The paper offers this aesthetic version as a theistic way of explaining how the natural world can be thought valuable independently of human desires and purposes. It further argues that such an argument must commend itself to anyone who is as deeply committed to the preservation of n…Read more
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Ch. 7. Hamilton, Scottish common sense, and the philosophy of the conditionedIn W. J. Mander (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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15Philosophy, Knowledge, and UnderstandingIn Stephen Robert Grimm (ed.), Making Sense of the World: New Essays on the Philosophy of Understanding, Oxford University Press. pp. 98-115. 2017.This chapter begins with the unfavorable comparison that has often been made between the substantial progress the natural and social sciences have made, and the interminable and inconclusive debates that philosophers engage in. It examines the Humean attempt to make philosophy more scientific and the Lockean conception of philosophy as an “under-labourer for the sciences. It argues instead for a conception of philosophy as the pursuit of cognitive goals other than the kind of knowledge and expla…Read more
