Routledge The Scotch Metaphysics: A Century of Enlightenment in Scotland (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy)

Focusing on the works of Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart, Sir William Hamilton, Thomas Brown and James Frederick Ferrier, this book offers a definitive account of an important philosophical movement, and represents a ground-breaking contribution to scholarship in the area. Essential reading for philosophers or anyone with an interest in the history of philosophical thought. Review 'It is of historical interest - a significant step in the historiography of the Scottish Enlightenment.' - Journal of Scottish Philosophy'There emerges a clear and engaging picture of not merely a continuing philoshopical enterprise, but an intellectual community and a philosophical tradition.'-Gordon Graham, Eighteenth Century Scotland'Davie's book provides a welcome corrective to the almost obsessive confinement of Scottish philosophy to the period of the Enlightenment.' -Gordon Graham, Eighteenth Century Scotland'It is of historical interest - a significant step in the historiography of the Scottish Enlightenment.' - Journal of Scottish Philosophy