Forthcoming Volumes in the Library of Scottish Philosophy
The following volumes are in preparation and are expected to be published at the 2nd Princeton International Symposium on Scottish Philosophy in 2010.
Thomas Reid: Selected Writings
edited and introduced by Giovanni Grandi, Auburn University
Thomas Reid (1710-1796) is regarded as the founder and principal thinker in the ‘Scottish School of Common Sense’. Reid published three important volumes in his lifetime, and left a considerable corpus of other work, much of it in manuscript form at the University of Aberdeen.
Giovanni Grandi was responsible for the first full annotated catalog of Reid’s papers, and is acknowledged as a major contributor to the interest in Reid among a new generation of scholars.
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Thomas Brown: Selected Writings
edited and introduced by Thomas Dixon, Queen Mary College, University of London
Thomas Brown (1778-1820) succeeded Dugald Stewart in the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh. While clearly working in the tradition of Scottish philosophy, by being sympathetic to Hume and critical of Reid, Brown shows that the tradition is not confined to the ‘school of common sense’. Though he died suddenly and at a relatively young age with no published works, Brown left completed manuscripts of his lecture courses which appeared posthumously.
Thomas Dixon is editor of the eight volume Collected Works of Thomas Brown (Thoemmes Press, 2003)
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Scottish Philosophy in America
edited and introduced by Elmer H Duncan, Baylor University
The appointment of John Witherspoon as President of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) brought Scottish philosophy to America. Its subsequent influence on college education and theological debate in the emergent United States was immense. It was one of Witherspoon’s successors James McCosh who first coined the expression ‘Scottish philosophy’ when he published a book with this title in 1875 by which time ‘common sense philosophy’ had spawned a native successor in ‘pragmatism’.
Elmer Duncan is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Baylor. He has long had an interest in the influence of Scottish philosophy in America and his publications include a study of the education of William Carey Crane, an important figure in the development of college education in the southern states.
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