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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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8Art and Architecture: A Place Between: Book Reviews (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 48 (1): 100-101. 2008.
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8Liberalism: Metaphysical, political, historicalPhilosophical Papers 22 (2): 97-122. 1993.No abstract
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8Evil and Christian ethicsCambridge University Press. 2001.Genocide in Rwanda, multiple murder at Denver or Dunblane, the gruesome activities of serial killers - what makes these great evils, and why do they occur? In addressing such questions this book, unusually, interconnects contemporary moral philosophy with recent work in New Testament scholarship. The conclusions to emerge are surprising. Gordon Graham argues that the inability of modernist thought to account satisfactorily for evil and its occurrence should not lead us to embrace an eclectic pos…Read more
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7Conceptions of natureIn Nicholas Adams, George Pattison & Graham Ward (eds.), The Oxford handbook of theology and modern European thought, Oxford University Press. pp. 399. 2013.
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7Review: Recent Work in Political Philosophy The Attack on Liberalism (review)Philosophical Quarterly 40 (161). 1990.
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7Scottish Philosophy: Selected Writings 1690-1950 (edited book)Imprint Academic. 2004.The fame of thinkers such as David Hume, Adam Smith and Thomas Reid has led to philosophy being widely acknowledged as the jewel in the intellectual crown of the Scottish Enlightenment. But the Scottish tradition of philosophy extends much further than the 18th century. Its origins are to be found in the Middle Ages when Scotland's ancient universities were founded, and its central themes continued to be explored well into the twentieth century. This collection of readings, the first of its kind…Read more
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6Philosophy, Art, and Religion: Understanding Faith and CreativityCambridge University Press. 2017.At a time when religion and science are thought to be at loggerheads, art is widely hailed as religion's natural spiritual ally. Philosophy, Art, and Religion investigates the extent to which this is true. It charts the way in which modern conceptions of 'Art' often marginalize the sacred arts, construing choral and instrumental music, painting and iconography, poetry, drama, and architecture as 'applied' arts that necessarily fall short of the ideal of 'art for art's sake'. Drawing on both hist…Read more
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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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6Aesthetic empiricism and the challenge of fakes and ready-madesIn Matthew Kieran (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Blackwell. pp. 11--21. 2006.
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4Institution of Intellectual Values: Realism and Idealism in Higher EducationImprint Academic. 2005.This is a revised and expanded version of the much praised short book _Universities: The Recovery of An Idea_. It contains chapters on the history of universities; the value of university education; the nature of research; the management and funding of universities plus additional essays on such subjects as human nature and the study of the humanities, interdisciplinary versus multidisciplinary study, information systems and the concept of a library, the prospects for e-learning, reforming unive…Read more