Scottish Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century ISBN: 9780198769842 Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Oxford University Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Philosophy History of Philosophy;
During the seventeenth century Scots produced many high quality philosophical writings, writings that were very much part of a wider European philosophical discourse. Yet today Scottish philosophy of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries is widely studied, but that of the seventeenth century is only now beginning to receive the attention it deserves. This volume begins by placing the seventeenth-century Scottish philosophy in its political and religious contexts,and then investigates the writings of the philosophers in the areas of logic, metaphysics, politics, ethics, law, and religion. By the early eighteenth century Scotland was well placed to give rise tothe spectacular Enlightenment that then followed, and to do so in large measure on the basis of its own well-established intellectual resources. Among the many thinkers discussed are Reformed orthodox, Episcopalian, and Catholics philosophers including George Robertson, George Middleton, John Boyd, Robert Baron, Mark Duncan, Samuel Rutherford, James Dundas, George Mackenzie, James Dalrymple, and William Chalmers.
Alexander Broadie is an honorary professorial research fellow at the University of Glasgow and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was Principal Investigator of the Leverhulme International Network Project '17th century Scottish philosophy' (2010-2014). In 2018 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society. His publications include A History of Scottish Philosophy (Edinburgh 2009), AgreeableConnexions: Scottish Enlightenment Links with France (Birlinn 2012), History of Universities, Volume XXIX/2 (Oxford 2017), and The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment (Cambridge 2019).
