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    Aesthetics, Nature and Religion: Ronald W. Hepburn and his Legacy, ed. Endre Szécsényi
    with Endre Szécsényi, Peter Cheyne, David E. Cooper, Emily Brady, Douglas Hedley, Mary Warnock, Guy Bennett-Hunter, Michael McGhee, James Kirwan, Isis Brook, Fran Speed, Yuriko Saito, James MacAllister, Arto Haapala, Alexander J. B. Hampton, Pauline von Bonsdorff, Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson, and Arnar Árnason
    Aberdeen University Press. 2020.
    On 18–19 May 2018, a symposium was held in the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the death of Ronald W. Hepburn (1927–2008). The speakers at this event discussed Hepburn’s oeuvre from several perspectives. For this book, the collection of the revised versions of their talks has been supplemented by the papers of other scholars who were unable to attend the symposium itself. Thus this volume contains contribution…Read more
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    Scotland's Migrant Philosophers and the History of Scottish Philosophy
    History of European Ideas 39 (5): 670-692. 2013.
    The history of Scottish philosophy in the nineteenth century is written by migrant philosophers attempting to use the Scottish tradition as the foundation for philosophy in their new homelands. In the accounts of John Clark Murray , James McCosh and Henry Laurie , different evaluations are made of the continuing relevance of the Scottish Common Sense School, but all are committed Christians for whom David Hume cannot be part of a Scottish tradition. As a result, none of these accounts gives any …Read more
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    T. S. Eliot, I. A. Richards and Empiricism's Art of Memory
    Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale. forthcoming.
    Cet article met en évidence la grande difficulté que pose la communication poétique, surtout à partir de Coleridge, pour la théorie empiriste de Vassociation des idées, fondée sur les présupposés hérités de la tradition de Locke et de Hartley. De l'époque de Coleridge au début du xixe siècle, jusqu'à celle d'I. A. Richards et de T. S. Eliot, un siècle plus tard, c'est cette difficulté qui a suscité un débat important parmi les poètes et critiques littéraires britanniques : la discussion autour d…Read more