This new history of Scottish philosophy will include two volumes that focus on the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. In this first volume, a team of leading experts explore the ideas, intellectual context, and influence of Hutcheson, Hume, Smith, Reid, and many other thinkers.

• Introduction


• 1: Roger Emerson: The World in which the Scottish Enlightenment Took Shape


• 2: Daniel Carey: Francis Hutcheson's Philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment: Reception, Reputation, and Legacy


• 3: Aaron Garrett and Colin Heydt: Moral Philosophy: Practical and Speculative


• 4: Gordon Graham: Beauty, Taste, Rhetoric, and Language


• 5: James A. Harris and Mikko Tolonen: Hume in and out of Scottish Context


• 6: Jeffrey M. Suderman: Religion and Philosophy


• 7: Aaron Garrett and Ryan Hanley: Adam Smith: History and Impartiality


• 8: Christopher J. Berry: The Rise of the Human Sciences


• 9: Silvia Sebastiani: Barbarism and Republicanism


• 10: Emma Macleod: Revolution


• 11: Paul Wood: Thomas Reid and the Common Sense School


• 12: Paul Wood: Postscript: On Writing the History of Scottish Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment

Aaron Garrett is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University.
James A. Harris is Reader in the History of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews.