2015/03/05 by Graham, Gordon 1949- · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Classical Philosophy and Thought #Scottish History and National Identity
paper · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199560684.001.0001
openalex publication_date 2015/03/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/04/25
Abstract This book contains twelve chapters which cover the history of Scottish philosophy after the much more celebrated period of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. The opening chapter surveys the whole period and weaves different aspects and authors into a coherent narrative structure. In the chapters that follow some cover major figures from Thomas Brown who died in 1820 through William Hamilton and J. F. Ferrier, to Alexander Bain who continued to make important contributions to the development of scientific psychology in the 1880s. Four chapters are thematic and cover important developments across the period—the Scottish reception of Kant and the sustained activity of interpretation that followed it, the rise of Idealism and interest in Hegel in particular, the spread of Scottish philosophy in Europe, America, and Australasia, and the relation of Common Sense to American pragmatism. Two chapters take the story into the twentieth century, focusing on George Elder Davie and John Macmurray, who were both highly influential figures in their day. A concluding chapter investigates the nature and identity of a ‘Scottish philosophical tradition’.