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24Politics, Religion, and National IdentityRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 45 73-84. 2000.This essay is not a further contribution to the debate about liberal individualism, the chief topic of discussion in political and social philosophy for the last twenty-five years or more. Nevertheless it is necessary to begin by rehearsing some features of that debate, claims that will be very familiar to contemporary political philosophers. Inspired largely by John Rawls, the modern version of political liberalism has tried to make coherent a conception of politics according to which political…Read more
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24Leslie Ellen Brown, Artful Virtue: The Interplay of the Beautiful and the Good in the Scottish EnlightenmentJournal of Scottish Philosophy 14 (2): 205-208. 2016.
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24Review: Thomas Reid: Essays on the Active Powers of Man (review)Journal of Scottish Philosophy 9 (2): 253-254. 2011.
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23Review: Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society (review)Journal of Scottish Philosophy 8 (2): 221-225. 2010.
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23Can There Be History of Philosophy?History and Theory 21 (1): 37-52. 1982.The understanding which a philosopher has, can have, or ought to have of the work of his predecessors cannot be historical in character. Collingwood is right about evidence and the nature of historical understanding. But what a philosopher wrote is not evidence of his thought, it is his thought. The ideas and doctrines of past philosophers are not themselves in the past and do not therefore belong to a special period of the past. Philosophic ideas cannot be said to be in time at all. Different i…Read more
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22Raquel Lazaro and Julio Seoane eds, The Changing Faces of Religion in XVIIIth Century ScotlandJournal of Scottish Philosophy 16 (1): 97-100. 2018.
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21Stephen 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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21Religion and PoliticsPhilosophy 58 (224). 1983.1. The appearance of Islam upon the stage of international politics hasbeen greeted by some commentators as a return to the Middle Ages. Preciselywhat they mean by this is not very clear, to themselves no less than their readers perhaps. In part, no doubt, they refer to the kinds of punishment Islamic law requires, which have a brutality associated in the common mind with medieval Europe. In part too there is the feeling that the phenomena of religion in politics, inquisitions, holy wars, govern…Read more
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20Music and the emotions: The philosophical theories by Malcolm Budd Routledge and kegan Paul, 1985. XIV + 190 pp. £14.95 (review)Philosophical Books 18 (2): 114-115. 1977.
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19Ruth Savage , Philosophy and Religion in Enlightenment Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 288 pp. $68.29 hb. ISBN 9780199227044 (review)Journal of Scottish Philosophy 13 (2): 126-129. 2015.
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16De Crespigny and Cronin: Ideologies of Politics (review)Philosophical Quarterly 27 (106): 94. 1977.
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14Nicholas 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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14Reason and Religion. A Royal Institute of Philosophy SymposiumPhilosophical Quarterly 29 (117): 378. 1979.
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14Mary Shepherd: a guide Mary Shepherd: a guide, by Deborah Boyle, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Oxford Guides to Philosophy, 2023, 329pp, £82.00 (hbk), ISBN: 9780190090326 (review)History of European Ideas 50 (3): 567-569. 2024.Lady Mary Shepherd is a name that is almost unknown among historians of philosophy. Thanks to Deborah Boyle and others, this is changing. Recently, a small but increasing number of scholars have be...