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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
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1Human Nature and Social TransformationIn J. E. Katz & J. Floyd (eds.), Philosophy of Emerging Media: Understanding, Appreciation and Application, Oxford University Press. 2015.This chapter investigates the question of how a “philosophy” of emerging technologies should be conceived. Part 1 distinguishes between prediction and explanation as the end goal of such a philosophy, and explores empirical social science and idealist philosophy as alternative approaches to explanation. It uses the basic ideas of actor network theory to uncover weaknesses in both. Part 2 sets out a third possibility, namely the empirical-cum-normative philosophical method that underlies the writ…Read more
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15Mary 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...
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Beauty, 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.
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4Music and the Emotions: the philosophical theories By MALCOLM BUDD Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985. xiv + 190 pp. £14.95 (review)Philosophical Books 28 (2): 114-115. 2009.
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11Simon 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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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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52: Stephen Buckle (ed.), Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) Cambridge University Press 2007 pp 232 + xli ISBN 0-521-60403-6 ; David Womersley (ed.), Liberty and American Experience in the Eighteenth Century, Indianapolis, Liberty Fund 2006 ISBN 0-86597-629- (review)Journal of Scottish Philosophy 5 (2): 229-230. 2007.Stephen Buckle , Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding Cambridge University Press 2007 pp 232 + xli ISBN 0-521-60403-6 David Womersley , Liberty and American Experience in the Eighteenth Century, Indianapolis, Liberty Fund 2006 ISBN 0-86597-629-5
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37Review: Adam Ferguson: History, Progress and Human Nature (review)Journal of Scottish Philosophy 7 (1): 107-111. 2009.
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32Review of Jeffry H. Morrison: John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic (review)Journal of Scottish Philosophy 3 (2): 190-193. 2005.
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42David 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: 0-86597-390-3 (review)Journal of Scottish Philosophy 2 (1): 100-101. 2004.
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46Hume after 300 YearsJournal of Scottish Philosophy 10 (2): 163-181. 2012.It is argued that we should distinguish between an ‘early Hume’ and a ‘mature Hume’ on causality. In his early period, represented by the Treatise, Hume had not yet adopted Newtonian active principles. In the mature period, however, represented in particular by the First Enquiry, his theory of causation has been transformed by a reception of Newton. This leads Hume to drop the condition of contiguity, which had excluded action-at-a-distance in the Treatise. It also leads him to allow real necess…Read more
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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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35Review: Thomas Reid on Practical Ethics (review)Journal of Scottish Philosophy 6 (1): 111-114. 2008.