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10Book Review of the Selling Rights - A publisher's guide to success by Lynette Owen (review)Logos 3 (1): 44. 1992.
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1Book Review of The Business of Book Publishing by Elizabeth Geiser (review)Logos 2 (4): 203. 1991.
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28Gordon Graham Response to Remy Debes, Ryan Hanley and James HarrisJournal of Scottish Philosophy 17 (1): 18-22. 2019.
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6Scottish Philosophy after the EnlightenmentIn Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Oxford University Press. 2015.This chapter places succeeding chapters, and the relation between them, in a narrative intellectual history of philosophy in Scotland after the Enlightenment, as well as its influence in intellectual developments abroad. It highlights a recurrent instability that lies within the Scottish Enlightenment project of a ‘science of human nature’, namely the tension between traditional metaphysical questions, and the emerging empirical sciences of economics, politics, sociology, and psychology. It trac…Read more
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3Scottish Philosophy AbroadIn Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Oxford University Press. 2015.This chapter is divided into three separate sections devoted in order to Europe, North America, and Australasia. In the first section, attention is given to the reception of Scottish philosophical writings principally in France and Germany, from the late decades of the eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. The second section recounts the place and influence of Scottish philosophy in the liberal arts colleges of colonial America, and the great influence of key figure such as Francis A…Read more
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2The Integrity of Scottish Philosophy and the Idea of a National TraditionIn Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Oxford University Press. 2015.This concluding chapter addresses the conceptual questions that arise in connection with identifying a philosophical tradition, and giving it a distinctive national label. It argues against the common identification of ‘Scottish philosophy’ with the ‘School of Common Sense’, and argues that Francis Hutcheson initiated an approach to philosophical questions that pre-dates the appeal to common sense developed by Reid. It contends that the ‘School of Common Sense’ was just one attempt to formulate …Read more
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8A Re-examination of Sir William Hamilton’s PhilosophyIn Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Oxford University Press. 2015.This chapter recounts the rise, eminence, and rapid fall in the philosophical standing of Sir William Hamilton. It sets out the philosophical resources that Hamilton called upon to amend and sustain the ‘common sense’ philosophy of Thomas Reid, responding especially to the criticisms of Thomas Brown. It examines in detail the criticisms that were brought against his philosophy from both sympathizers and opponents. Special attention is given to books on Hamilton published in the nineteenth by Hen…Read more
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3Beauty, Taste, Rhetoric, and LanguageIn Aaron Garrett & James Anthony Harris (eds.), Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Volume I: Morals, Politics, Art, Religion, Oxford University Press. 2015.This chapter discusses four principal themes of Scottish aesthetics over the course of the eighteenth century. The first is the question of ‘taste’ and its relation to the perception and reality of beauty. Does beauty exist independently of its being perceived, or is it in some sense the product of our perception? The second is the matter of aesthetic criticism. Can aesthetic judgements be rational, and if so on what basis? The third main topic is the rhetorical use of language. Is oratory an ar…Read more
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46Religion and Spirituality: Adam Smith versus J-J RousseauJournal of Philosophical Investigations at University of Tabriz 12 (24): 83-93. 2018.Adam Smith and J-J Rousseau share some common ground when it comes to religion, namely that they were born into and educated in cultural contexts deeply shaped by Reformed Christianity. However, close consideration of their writings on religion reveal marked difference. This paper explores those differences and finds that Rousseau and Smith are radically at odds on this score. Smith has almost nothing to say about personal spirituality, and locates the significance of religion in its social role…Read more