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Lady Mary Shepherd

Selected Writings
Deborah Boyle

A collection of works published by Lady Mary Shepherd, brought together in one volume with an introduction by the editor and published as part of the Library of Scottish Philosophy series.



Thomas Reid on Religion

James J.S. Foster

This volume — a companion to Thomas Reid: Selected Philosophical Writings (2012) — makes available material from Thomas Reid's autograph manuscripts and student notes of his lectures. It includes an introductory essay by Nicholas Wolterstorff.



Lord Kames

Selected Writings
Andreas Rahmatian

Library of Scottish Philosophy volume containing selected writings of Henry Home, Lord Kames, judge, jurist and philosopher.



Francis Hutcheson

Selected Philosophical Writings
John McHugh

Known today mainly as a teacher of Adam Smith (1723–90) and an influence on David Hume (1711–76), Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746) was a first-rate thinker whose work deserves study on its own merit. Spanning his entire literary career, this collection brings together selections from Hutcheson's greater and lesser known works.



Scottish Philosophy of Rhetoric

Rosaleen Keefe

The selected writings chosen for this volume show how Scottish rhetorical textbooks were a practical extension of the philosophy of language developed by 18th century Scottish philosophers.



Thomas Reid

Selected Philosophical Writings
Giovanni Grandi

The aim of this comprehensive selection of his writings is to make the key elements of Reid's philosophical work available to a new generation of readers.



Scottish Philosophy in America

James J.S. Foster

The Scottish Enlightenment provided the fledgling United States of America and its emerging universities with a philosophical orientation. This volume in the Library of Scottish Philosophy demonstrates the remarkable extent of this philosophical influence.



James Frederick Ferrier

Selected Writings
Jennifer Keefe

This volume contains selections from the philosophical writings of James Frederick Ferrier (1808-1864). Ferrier was the Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews between 1845 and 1864 and he was one of the earliest post-Hegelian British idealists.



Thomas Brown

Selected Philosophical Writings
Thomas Dixon

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.



Adam Ferguson

Selected Philosophical Writings
Eugene Heath

A philosopher and historian, Adam Ferguson occupies a unique place within eighteenth-century Scottish thought. Distinguished by a moral and historical bent, his work is framed within a teleological outlook that upholds the importance of action and virtue.



Politics and Society in Scottish Thought

Shinichi Nagao

This volume illustrates the way political and social philosophers of 18th-century Scotland tried to answer the following question: 'What is, and what ought to be, the relationship between the modern market and stable, desirable social order?'



Scottish Philosophical Theology

David Fergusson

This volume concentrates on the period from the beginning of the 18th century to the latter part of the 20th. It is impossible to depict a single school of philosophical theology in Scotland across three centuries, yet several strains have been identified.



Dugald Stewart

Selected Philosophical Writings
Dugald Stewart

Dugald Stewart became one of the most influential academics in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European 'Republic of Letters'. This volume brings together some of Stewart's philosophical writings.



Adam Smith

Selected Philosophical Writings
James R. Otteson

This anthology collects, for the first time in one volume, not only generous selections from each of Smith's books but also substantial selections from his other work, including his lectures on jurisprudence, his history and philosophy of science, his criticism and belles lettres, and his philosophy of language.



Scottish Idealists

Selected Philosophical Writings
David Boucher

This collection of readings, the first of its kind, has been chosen with a view to displaying the variety, richness and strength of the Scottish Idealist tradition.



John MacMurray

Selected Philosophical Writings
John MacMurray

The philosophy of John Macmurray is only now receiving the attention it deserves. It is in the contemporary climate of dissatisfaction with individualism that Macmurray's emphasis on the relations of persons has come to the fore.



James Beattie

Selected Philosophical Writings
James Beattie

The first part of this selection — the first ever made from Beattie's prose writings — includes several key chapters from the Essay on Truth, along with extracts from all of Beattie's other works on moral philosophy. The second part of the selection is devoted to Beattie's contributions to literary criticism and aesthetics.



Art and Enlightenment

Scottish Aesthetics in the 18th Century
Jonathan Friday

This volume brings together and provides contextual introductions to the most significant 18th century writing on the philosophy of art.



Scottish Philosophy

Selected Writings 1690-1950
Gordon Graham

This collection of readings, the first of its kind, has been chosen with a view to displaying the variety, richness and strength of the Scottish philosophical tradition.