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Author:   James A. Harris (University of St Andrews)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.10cm , Height: 4.40cm , Length: 25.20cm
Weight:   1.364kg
ISBN:  

9780199549023

ISBN 10:   0199549028
Pages:   688
Publication Date:   03 October 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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James A. Harris: Introduction PART 1: THE LANGUAGES OF PHILOSOPHY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN 1: TIMOTHY STANTON: Locke and his legacy 2: ERIC SCHLIESSER: Newton and Newtonianism in eighteenth-century British thought 3: JACQUELINE TAYLOR: The idea of a science of human nature 4: PADDY BULLARD: Rhetoric and eloquence: the language of persuasion PART 2: LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS 5: REBECCA COPENHAVER: Perception and the Language of Nature 6: LAURENT JAFFRO: Language and thought 7: JOHN P. WRIGHT: The understanding 8: AARON GARRETT: Mind and matter PART 3: THE PASSIONS 9: AMY SCHMITTER: Passions, affections, sentiments: taxonomy and terminology 10: TERENCE CUNEO: Reason and the passions 11: SEAN GREENBERG: Liberty and necessity 12: JAMES A. HARRIS: The government of the passions PART 4: MORALS 13: CHRISTIAN MAURER: Self-interest and sociability 14: P. J. E. KAIL: Moral judgment 15: Dario Perinetti: The nature of virtue 16: COLIN HEYDT: Practical ethics PART 5: CRITICISM 17: PAUL GUYER: The pleasures of the imagination and the objects of taste 18: TIMOTHY M. COSTELLOE: The faculty of taste 19: EVA DADLEZ: The pleasures of tragedy 20: PETER KIVY: Genius and the creative imagination PART 6: POLITICS 21: DARIO CASTIGLIONE: The origin of civil government 22: CRAIG SMITH: Forms of government 23: NEIL McARTHUR: Reform and revolution 24: RICHARD WHATMORE: Luxury, commerce, and the rise of political economy PART 7: PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION 25: PAUL RUSSELL: Causation, cosmology, and the limits of philosophy: the early eighteenth-century British debate 26: ALEXANDER BROADIE: Philosophy, revealed religion, and 'The Enlightenment' 27: THOMAS AHNERT: Religion and morality

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[T]his work seems intended for people ... who want an introduction to the key philosophical problems in the age of the British Enlightenment. It is like a core drilling into the current status of work on some of the most important writers of that era, the fruit of years of research in its historical context. Journal of Scottish Philosophy An outstanding survey of the key figures and questions that dominated eighteenth-century British philosophy Ryan Patrick Hanley, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Highly recommended. CHOICE

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James A. Harris is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Of Liberty and Necessity: The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy (OUP, 2005), and of articles on Hume, Hutcheson, Reid, Beattie, Priestley, and a number of themes in eighteenth-century British thought. He has edited texts by Reid, Beattie, Kames, and Abraham Tucker. He is writing an intellectual biography of Hume for Cambridge University Press, and also the eighteenth-century British philosophy volume of the new Oxford History of Philosophy.

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