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The Rise and Fall of Scottish Common Sense Realism

By Thomas , Ferrier , James Frederick; Hamilton , William; Kames , Henry Home; McDermid , Douglas; Reid

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780191848094, 0191848093, 9780192507068, 0192507060
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1543975 bytes)
Edition
First edition.
Pages
0\243
Time added
2020-01-27 01:29:16
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Description

Douglas McDermid presents a study of the remarkable flourishing of Scottish philosophy from the 18th to the mid-19th century. He examines how Kames, Reid, Stewart, Hamilton, and Ferrier gave illuminating treatments of the central philosophical problem of the existence of a material world independently of perception and thought. Reid and the foundations of Scottish common sense -- Kames and the argument from perceptual reliability -- Reid and the problem of the external world -- Stewart and Hamilton : defenders of the faith -- Ferrier and the myth of Scottish common sense realism -- Ferrier and the foundations of idealism -- "Scottish to the very core."

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