Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Gordon Graham
Abstract
This book contains twelve chapters which cover the history of Scottish philosophy after the much more celebrated period of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. The opening chapter surveys the whole period and weaves different aspects and authors into a coherent narrative structure. In the chapters that follow some cover major figures from Thomas Brown who died in 1820 through William Hamilton and J. F. Ferrier, to Alexander Bain who continued to make important contributions to the development of scientific psychology in the 1880s. Four chapters are thematic and cover important develo ... More
This book contains twelve chapters which cover the history of Scottish philosophy after the much more celebrated period of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. The opening chapter surveys the whole period and weaves different aspects and authors into a coherent narrative structure. In the chapters that follow some cover major figures from Thomas Brown who died in 1820 through William Hamilton and J. F. Ferrier, to Alexander Bain who continued to make important contributions to the development of scientific psychology in the 1880s. Four chapters are thematic and cover important developments across the period—the Scottish reception of Kant and the sustained activity of interpretation that followed it, the rise of Idealism and interest in Hegel in particular, the spread of Scottish philosophy in Europe, America, and Australasia, and the relation of Common Sense to American pragmatism. Two chapters take the story into the twentieth century, focusing on George Elder Davie and John Macmurray, who were both highly influential figures in their day. A concluding chapter investigates the nature and identity of a ‘Scottish philosophical tradition’.
Keywords:
Scottish philosophy,
common sense,
Idealism,
William Hamilton,
John Macmurray
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199560684 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2015 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199560684.001.0001 |
