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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: M. A. Stewart (Honorary Research Fellow and Professor Emeritus, Honorary Research Fellow and Professor Emeritus, Manchester Harris College, Oxford, and University of Lancaster)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.794kg ISBN: 9780199547319ISBN 10: 0199547319 Pages: 416 Publication Date: 17 November 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsJames Harris, John P Wright, and Ruth Barlow: Introduction 1: Hume, David (1711-1776), Scottish philosopher and historian 2: The Scottish Enlightenment 3: Hume's intellectual development, 1711-1752 4: The Stoic legacy in the early Scottish Enlightenment 5: The kirk and the infidel 6: Two species of philosophy: The historical significance of the first 'Enquiry' 7: Academic freedom: Origins of an idea 8: An early fragment on evil 9: The dating of Hume's manuscripts 10: Abstraction and representation in Locke, Berkeley, and Hume 11: Hume and theReviews"""Hume's Philosophy in Historical Perspective is valuable not simply as a testament to Stewart's scholarship and as a collection of papers... It stands as a keystone in our understanding of the Scottish Enlightenment."" -- John Robertson, Clare College, Cambridge" Author InformationThe late M. A. Stewart was a historian of Philosophy and an authority on David Hume. He specialised in putting philosophical and theological views in their historical context. His work is marked by meticulous attention to detail, always returning to primary sources. He spent the larger part of his career at the University of Lancaster but held visiting positions at Aberdeen, Oxford, Canberra, and Sierra Leone. He was a towering figure in the establishment of history of ideas and history of philosophy in Britain, serving as President to the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, the British Society for the History of Philosophy, and as the General Editor of The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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