Studies in the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment

M. A. Stewart is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Lancaster, but does not want his affiliation listed in publicity materials. Refer to him as Editor of Oxford Studies in Philosophy. 1993 - new affiliation is Professor of the History of Philosophy, University of Lancaster

• M. A. Stewart: Introduction; Roger L. Emerson: Science and Moral Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment; James Moore: The Two Systems of Francis Hutcheson: On the Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment; Knud Haakonssen: Natural Law and Moral Realism: The Scottish Synthesis; Richard B. Sher: Professors of Virtue: The Social History of the Edinburgh Moral Philosophy Chair in the Eighteenth Century; P. B. Wood: Science and the Pursuit of Virtue in the Aberdeen Enlightenment; Michael Barfoot: Hume and the Culture of Science in the Early Eighteenth Century; David Wootton: Hume's `Of Miracles': Probability and Irreligion; David R. Raynor: Hume and Berkeley's Three Dialogues; John P. Wright: Metaphysics and Physiology: Mind, Body, and the Animal Economy in Eighteenth-Century Scotland; John W. Yolton: Reviews of: Scepticism and Reasonable Doubt by M. Jamie Ferreira and The Mind of God and the Works of Man by Edward Craig

`In a striking paragraph the editor dismisses the typical "history of philosophy" as "vicarious and unmemorable philosophical exercises of an entirely modern kind, fought out round a narrow, generally derivative, and frequently fanciful picture of at least one dead philosopher". What are substituted here are detailed, painstaking approaches to interpretation through the study of a wide variety of primary sources ... adds greatly to our understanding of the period.'Times Literary Supplement