Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Gordon Graham FRSE is Henry Luce III Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at Princeton Theological Seminary. His areas of academic interest include aesthetics, moral philosophy, philosophy of religion, and the Scottish philosophical tradition. He is Director of the Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy at Princeton and founding editor of the Journal of Scottish Philosophy.

• 1. Scottish Philosophy after the Enlightenment ; 2. Revolting Against Reid: The Philosophy of Thomas Brown ; 3. A Re-examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy ; 4. James Frederick Ferrier: The Return of Idealism and the Rejection of Common Sense ; 5. Alexander Bain, Associationism, and Scottish Philosophy ; 6. The Scottish Reception of Kant: Common Sense and Idealism ; 7. Germany Calling: The Scottish Idealists and the Reception of Hegel ; 8. Scottish Philosophy Abroad ; 9. Scottish Common Sense and American Pragmatism ; 10. George Davie and the Democratic Intellect ; 11. John Macmurray as a Scottish Philosopher: The Role of the University and the Means to Live Well ; 12. The Integrity of Scottish Philosophy and the Idea of a National Tradition

These essays are of a uniformly high standard; each will repay study for those wishing to familiarize themselves with the leading Scottish philosophers of the period. Representing much fresh research, the volume suggests that figures such as Brown, Ferrier and Bain have been unfairly neglected, perhaps as a result of the greater preoccupation with their eighteenth-century predecessors.