David Hume and the Aberdeen Philosophers

Gordon Graham is Director of the Edinburgh Sacred Arts Festival. He previously taught philosophy at the University of St Andrews, University of Aberdeen, and Princeton Theological Seminary. The author of twenty books on a wide range of subjects in aesthetics, politics and moral philosophy, he has also published extensively on the Scottish philosophical tradition. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and winner of an Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society Lifetime Achievement Award, he was founding editor of the Journal of Scottish Philosophy and general editor of the Oxford History of Scottish Philosophy. His books include Scottish Philosophy after the Enlightenment (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).

• List of Abbreviations1. The Aberdeen ‘Wise Club’ and the ‘Ingenious’ Hume2. Hume and Reid: Moral Philosophy3. Hume and Campbell: Rhetoric and Miracles4. Hume and Gerard: Taste and Genius5. Hume and Beattie: Racism and Common Sense6. Combining Science with PietyBibliographyIndex

Gordon Graham's David Hume and the Aberdeen Philosophers explores Hume's intellectual exchanges with his Aberdeen critics. This engaging study deepens our understanding of Hume’s reception in his own time, the rich philosophical diversity of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the enduring debates in epistemology, metaphysics, morality, aesthetics, social philosophy, and religion.