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Thomas Brown (1778–1820), Professor of Moral Philosophy in Edinburgh, was among the most prominent and widely read British philosophers of the first half of the nineteenth century. An influential interpreter of both Hume and Reid, Brown provided a bridge between the Scottish school of 'Common Sense' and the later positivism of John Stuart Mill and others. The selections in this volume illustrate Brown’s original ideas about mental science, cause and effect, emotions and ethics. They are preceded by an introduction situating Brown’s career and writings in their intellectual and historical context.
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"Hamilton's attack on Brown was controversial and contributed to the later censure of Hamilton himself by his greatest opponent, John Stuart Mill, who admired Brown and inﬂicted massively disproportionate harm on Hamilton’s reputation... This short edition of Brown’s Selected Philosophical Writings is a ﬁne addition to what is now becoming a most valuable collection of texts in The Library of Scottish Philosophy series."
Paperback
- Publication Date: 01 July 2010
- ISBN-13: 9781845401627
- Extent: Main content page count : 200
- Code: 184540162X
- Dimensions: 13.5 x 21 x 1.5 cm
- Weight: 300 grams
- List Price: £14.95
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