The Library of Scottish Philosophy is a series of specially commissioned books intended to provide teachers, students and the general reader with easy and inexpensive access to both well known and less well known writers in the Scottish philosophical tradition. Commissioned by the Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy in Princeton, New Jersey, these paperback selections are edited and introduced by experts from Europe, Asia and America. Published by Imprint Academic in the UK and distributed by Ingram in the USA.  'A new and welcome series from Imprint Academic.'  Network Review 'A valuable new resource for undergraduate teaching in the humanities.'  Maureen Harkin, Eighteenth-Century Scotland Current Volumes    Secure order form    Special subscription offer Scottish Philosophy: Selected Writings 1690-1960,  ed. Gordon Graham  James Beattie: Selected Philosophical Writings, ed. James Harris  Art and Enlightenment: Scottish Aesthetics in the 18th Century, ed. Jonathan Friday John Macmurray: Selected Philosophical Writings, ed. Esther McIntosh  The Scottish Idealists: Selected Philosophical Writings, ed. David Boucher Adam Ferguson: Selected Philosophical Writings, ed. Eugene Heath Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings, ed. James R. Otteson Dugald Stewart: Selected Philosophical Writings, ed. Emauele Levi Mortera Scottish Philosophical Theology, ed. David Fergusson Politics and Society in Scottish Thought, ed. Shinichi Nagao

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Scottish Philosophy: Selected Writings 1690-1960 selected and introduced by Gordon Graham   'Graham is to be credited with providing the first accessible and useful reader depicting the development of Scottish philosophy.' Craig Smith, Political Studies Review     Search Inside the Book at Amazon.com Search Inside the Book at Amazon.co.uk £14.95/$25.90, ISBN 0907845-746 Order this book

Gordon Graham FRSE is Henry Luce III Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at Princeton Theological Seminary, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Scottish Philosophy. He has published widely on the philosophy of ethics, politics, art and religion.

Philosophy in Scotland

The Scottish Philosophical Tradition
The Study of Human Nature and the ‘Science of Man’
The Challenge of David Hume
The Philosophy of Common Sense
The Practical/Speculative Division
The Decline of Scottish Philosophy

I Philosophical Theses I-XIX

II Thoughts on Laughter

GEORGE TURNBULL (1698-1748)

III The Principles of Moral Philosophy

DAVID HUME (1711-76)

IV Sceptical Doubts and Sceptical Solutions
V Miracles
VI Tragedy

IX Inquiring into the Human Mind
X Common Sense
XI First Principles

VII The Origins of Philosophy: Wonder and Surprise
VIII Sympathy

DUGALD STEWART (1753-1828)

XII The Utility of the Philosophy of Mind
XIII The Origin of Knowledge

XIV Hume as a philosopher

JAMES FREDERICK FERRIER (1806-64)

XV Reid and the Philosophy of Common Sense

EDWARD CAIRD (1835-1908)

XVI Idealism and the Theory of Knowledge

XVII David Hume and the Miraculous

C A CAMPBELL (1897-1974)

XVIII In Defence of Free Will

JOHN MACMURRAY (1891-1976)

XIX The Crisis of the Personal

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Art and Enlightenment: Scottish Aesthetics in the 18th Century edited and introduced by Jonathan Friday   "A very well-chosen collection . . . the range of the volume provides something of a built-in syllabus."  Maureen Harkin, Eighteenth-Century Scotland "Attractive and inexpensive . . . a very important step toward addressing the problem [of the availability of reasonably-priced texts]." Steven A. Jauss, American Society of Aesthetics Summer Newsletter "Includes serious discussions on relations between art and morality very relevant now."  Robert Calder, Appraisal     Search Inside the Book at Amazon.com Search Inside the Book at Amazon.co.uk   £14.95/$25.90  ISBN 0907845-762 Order this book

During the intellectual and cultural flowering of Scotland in the 18th century few subjects attracted as much interest among men of letters as aesthetics - the study of art from the subjective perspective of human experience. All of the great philosophers of the age - Hutcheson, Hume, Smith and Reid - addressed themselves to aesthetic questions. Their inquiries revolved around a cluster of issues - the nature of taste, beauty and the sublime, how qualitative differences operate upon the mind through the faculty of taste, and how aesthetic sensibility can be improved through education.

This volume brings together and provides contextual introductions to the most significant 18th century writing on the philosophy of art. From the pioneering study of beauty by Francis Hutcheson, through Hume's seminal essays on the standard of taste and tragedy, to the end of the tradition in Dugald Stewart, we are swept up in the debate about art and its value that fascinated the philosophers of enlightenment Scotland - and continues to do so to this day.

Jonathan Friday is Senior Lecturer in History and Theory of Art at the University of Kent. He has published on the philosophy of art and aesthetics, the history of philosophy and moral philosophy.

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John Macmurray: Selected Philosophical Writings edited and introduced by Esther McIntosh   "A highly recommended selection."  Robert Calder, Appraisal "McIntosh has done an excellent job in putting together the selection; she has been able to showcase the work of a thinker who is not widely known outside of Britain in a way that demonstrates that he can still prove engaging for the contemporary reader."  Philip Quadrio, J. Religious History "An ideal introduction."  Network Review     Search Inside the Book at Amazon.com Search Inside the Book at Amazon.co.uk £14.95/$25.90  ISBN 0907845-738 Order this book

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. Moreover, Macmurray's recognition of the central importance of acknowledging human embodiment is being favourably received by a wide range of fields, which includes philosophers, theologians and psychologists.

Macmurray's overriding concern is to present an adequate account of the person and of personal relationships. Nevertheless, he is an eclectic writer, whose work addresses concerns in education, science and art, which all stem from his understanding of human agency. In addition, this leads Macmurray into a discussion of the ethics of personal and political relations and a critique of otherworldly religion. Hence, Macmurray's philosophy is informed by fairly unconventional religious beliefs.

Esther McIntosh is Lecturer in Religion, Gender and Ethics at the University of Leeds. She publishes broadly on Macmurray's philosophy and issues of gender and ethics in philosophical theology

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The Scottish Idealists: Selected Philosophical Writings edited and introduced by David Boucher   "You don't need to be an avowed Idealist to get the point of this volume."  Robert Calder, Appraisal "Offers a valuable selection from the Scottish Idealists."  Andrew Vincent, Victorian Studies     Search Inside the Book at Amazon.com Search Inside the Book at Amazon.co.uk £14.95/$25.90  ISBN 0907845-72X Order this book

The extent to which British Idealism was heavily influenced by Scots has been little noticed, yet not only were they at the forefront of introducing Hegel into Britain in the work of Ferrier, Carlyle, Hutcheson, Stirling and Edward Caird, but they were also distinctive in locating themselves in relation to the Scottish philosophical tradition they sought to extend. The Scottish Idealists, among them Edward Caird, David George Ritchie, Andrew Seth Pringle Pattison, William Mitchell, John Watson, and the Welshman Henry Jones who found his spiritual home in Glasgow, comprised a formidable force and dominated the philosophical professoriate in Britain, Australia and Canada from the late nineteenth century to the years leading up to the First World War. Its main centres were St. Andrews, Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland, Cardiff in Wales, and Oxford in England.

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, beginning with an essay from the famous Essays in Philosophical Criticism (1883), a book that set-out the future direction of enquiry for this group of thinkers who shared a 'common purpose or tendency'. Scottish Idealism was immensely spiritual in character and recognized no hard and fast distinctions between philosophy, religion, poetry and science. It was a formidable force in social and educational reform.

David Boucher is Professorial Fellow in European Studies at Cardiff University and Director of the Collingwood and British Idealism Centre. He has published widely on British Idealism, history of political thought, the theory of international relations, and political theory.

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Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings edited and introduced by James R. Otteson   Search Inside the Book at Amazon.com Search Inside the Book at Amazon.co.uk   £14.95/$25.90  ISBN 184540-001-1 Order this book "The selections are judicious and well-suited to introducing readers to the range of Smith's thought."  Maureen Harkin, Eighteenth-Century Scotland "The editor's introduction is very good . . . the selection itself is well balanced and particularly useful for undergraduates." David Sullivan, Political Studies Review "Recommended for the abiding interest in Smith's metaphysics."  Robert Calder, Appraisal

Adam Smith (1723–90) studied under Francis Hutcheson at the University of Glasgow, befriended David Hume while lecturing on rhetoric and jurisprudence in Edinburgh, was elected Professor of Logic, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Vice-rector, and eventually Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, and, along with Hutcheson, Hume, and a few others, went on to become one of the chief figures of the astonishing period of learning known as the Scottish Enlightenment.

He is the author of two books: The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). TMS brought Smith considerable acclaim during his lifetime and was quickly considered one of the great works of moral theory. It deeply impressed Immanuel Kant, for example, who called Smith his ‘ Liebling ' or ‘favourite', and Charles Darwin, who in his Descent of Man (1871) endorsed and accepted several of Smith's ‘striking' conclusions. TMS went through fully six revised editions during Smith's lifetime.

Since the nineteenth century, Smith's fame has largely rested on his Wealth of Nations, which must be considered one of the most important works of the millennium: its argument for free trade, its explanation of the price mechanism and the division of labor, its qualified defense of market economies, and its powerful criticisms of mercantilist economic theories are now standard fare in economics courses, not to mention the basis of a large portion of today's worldwide economic policy. And its account of human nature is now classic.

Both The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations reveal Smith's impressively broad learning, but he wrote and lectured on a number of other subjects as well. 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. It also includes two important letters from Hume, as well as Smith's account of Hume's death.

James R. Otteson is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama. He has published on Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment, political philosophy, and the history of early modern philosophy.

 
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Part One: Moral Theory. Selections from The Theory of Moral Sentiments, including Smith's discussions of:

•  The pleasure of ‘mutual sympathy of sentiments'

•  The origins of the conscience, or ‘impartial spectator'

•  The origins and development of commonly shared moral standards

•  The fundamental elements of human psychology

•  The division of labour and its advantages and liabilities

•  The nature of market exchange, the price mechanism, and the ‘invisible hand'

•  Human motivation and the limits of human knowledge

•  Schooling, religion, competition, and the proper role of government

•  The four-stages theory of human history

•  The origins of human languages and their principles of change

•  The nature of ‘imitation' in painting, music, dance, and poetry

•  Wonder, surprise, and admiration

•  The principles of scientific development

•  The contributions of Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, and Newton

•  The nature of philosophical or scientific method

•  Smith's letter to the March 1756 Edinburgh Review, outlining the foreign literature and philosophy that learned Scots should read and study

•  Hume's 12 April 1759 letter to Smith, on the reception in Edinburgh of TMS

•  Hume's 28 July 1759 letter to Smith, containing Hume's objections to TMS

•  Smith's 9 November 1776 letter to William Strahan, on the death of Hume

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Scottish Philosophical Theology   edited and introduced by David Fergusson   Search Inside the Book at Amazon.com Search Inside the Book at Amazon.co.uk   September 2007 £14.95/$29.90 ISBN 978-0907845775 Order this book

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 that suggest some recurrent themes or intellectual habits. These include the following: the mutually beneficial cross-fertilisation of the disciplines of philosophy and theology; the tendency to eschew powerful philosophical systems that might threaten to imprison theological ideas; a stress on both the providential limitations and reliability of human reason; a suspicion of reductive theories of a materialist inclination; and a determination to inspect critically the proposals of theology and to place these in positive relation to other disciplines.

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Adam Ferguson: Selected philosophical writings edited and introduced by Eugene Heath   Search Inside the Book at Amazon.com Search Inside the Book at Amazon.co.uk September 2007 £14.95/$29.90 ISBN 978-1845400569 Order this book

A philosopher and historian, Adam Ferguson occupies a unique place within eighteenth-century Scottish thought. A man of energy and verve, he made important contributions to social and moral theory, political philosophy and to the study of history. Reared in the highlands of Scotland, he lived most of his life in the enlightenment world of Edinburgh, participating in the city’s social clubs and in the broader public and intellectual life of his nation. Renowned for An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767), he also wrote pamphlets on political issues, published works of moral and political philosophy, authored a multi-volume history of the Roman Republic and composed numerous manuscript essays. Distinguished by a moral and historical bent, his work is framed within a teleological outlook that upholds the importance of action and virtue in the emerging commercial society of the eighteenth century.

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Dugald Stewart: Selected philosophical writings edited and introduced by Emauele Levi Mortera   Search Inside the Book at Amazon.com Search Inside the Book at Amazon.co.uk   September 2007 £14.95/$29.90 ISBN 978-1845400620 Order this book

Dugald Stewart was appointed assistant professor of mathematics in the University of Edinburgh in 1772, aged only 19. He became one of the most influential academics in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European ‘Republic of Letters.’ Both Stewart’s contemporaries and modern scholars have recognised the impact his influential figure had over many young minds. He was one of the leading figures of the Scottish Common Sense school, a name by which we are used to identifying the philosophical tradition headed by Thomas Reid.

The selection given here departs in some ways from Stewart’s own division of the subject, and aims to reflect the logical priority of each discipline, a priority which Stewart himself seems to give in the internal development of his ‘system’.

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Politics and Society in Scottish Thought edited and introduced by Shinichi Nagao   Search Inside the Book at Amazon.com Search Inside the Book at Amazon.co.uk   September 2007 £14.95/$29.90 ISBN 978-0907845782 Order this book

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?’ The essays belong to the second half of the century and offer a snapshot of the achievements of Scots on political and social philosophy.

The Scottish Enlightenment witnessed the birth of modern social sciences. Its moral philosophers attempted to harmonize a modern market economy with ethics, social order, stable polity and the moral progress of the human race. Their very diversity, and the thoroughness and sincerity of their endeavours, make the works of Scottish philosophers relevant to peoples’ lives on every part of the earth in an age of globalization.

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