David Hume and the Aberdeen philosophers : Reid, Campbell, Gerard, Beattie / Gordon Graham.

Graham, Gordon, 1949 July 15-, author

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2025.

192 pages ; 24 cm.

Specialized.

David Hume is the most famous philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment. Yet his prominence in the history of philosophy has had the unhappy effect of overshadowing some of the most insightful critics amongst his contemporaries. This book restores the philosophical credentials of a remarkable set of eighteenth-century philosophers based in Aberdeen's two university colleges. In their own time, Thomas Reid, George Campbell, Alexander Gerard and James Beattie provided compelling counters to the intellectual dominance of Hume's Edinburgh. Though they are now largely neglected, all four prove to be philosophers of striking critical acumen.

9781399541619 (hbk)

192

B1402.E55

Lo 192 GRA

English

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