David Hume and the Aberdeen Philosophers Reid, Campbell, Gerard, Beattie
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Gordon Graham is Director of the Edinburgh Sacred Arts Festival. He previously taught philosophy at the University of St Andrews, University of Aberdeen, and Princeton Theological Seminary. The author of twenty books on a wide range of subjects in aesthetics, politics and moral philosophy, he has also published extensively on the Scottish philosophical tradition. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and winner of an Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society Lifetime Achievement Award, he was founding editor of the Journal of Scottish Philosophy and general editor of the Oxford History of Scottish Philosophy. His books include Scottish Philosophy after the Enlightenment (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).Gordon Graham's David Hume and the Aberdeen Philosophers explores Hume's intellectual exchanges with his Aberdeen critics. This engaging study deepens our understanding of Hume’s reception in his own time, the rich philosophical diversity of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the enduring debates in epistemology, metaphysics, morality, aesthetics, social philosophy, and religion.
- Angela Coventry, Portland State University,
This lively and informative book by a leading scholar of the Scottish Enlightenment performs a valuable service to all students of the history of philosophy by inviting us to reassess – or to assess for the first time – the true merits of four of Hume’s most challenging critics.
- Don Garrett, New York University,