M. A. Stewart is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Lancaster, but does not want his affiliation listed in publicity materials. Refer to him as Editor of Oxford Studies in Philosophy. 1993 - new affiliation is Professor of the History of Philosophy, University of Lancaster

`In a striking paragraph the editor dismisses the typical "history of philosophy" as "vicarious and unmemorable philosophical exercises of an entirely modern kind, fought out round a narrow, generally derivative, and frequently fanciful picture of at least one dead philosopher". What are substituted here are detailed, painstaking approaches to interpretation through the study of a wide variety of primary sources ... adds greatly to our understanding of the period.'Times Literary Supplement

• M. A. Stewart: Introduction; Roger L. Emerson: Science and Moral Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment; James Moore: The Two Systems of Francis Hutcheson: On the Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment; Knud Haakonssen: Natural Law and Moral Realism: The Scottish Synthesis; Richard B. Sher: Professors of Virtue: The Social History of the Edinburgh Moral Philosophy Chair in the Eighteenth Century; P. B. Wood: Science and the Pursuit of Virtue in the Aberdeen Enlightenment; Michael Barfoot: Hume and the Culture of Science in the Early Eighteenth Century; David Wootton: Hume's `Of Miracles': Probability and Irreligion; David R. Raynor: Hume and Berkeley's Three Dialogues; John P. Wright: Metaphysics and Physiology: Mind, Body, and the Animal Economy in Eighteenth-Century Scotland; John W. Yolton: Reviews of: Scepticism and Reasonable Doubt by M. Jamie Ferreira and The Mind of God and the Works of Man by Edward Craig