Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Volume II

Aaron Garrett is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He specializes in the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy.James A. Harris is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He completed his DPhil at Oxford under the supervision of Galen Strawson, and was a Gifford Research Fellow at Glasgow and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford. He has written and published widely on eighteenth-century British philosophy, and has edited texts by Reid (with Knud Haakonssen), Beattie, Kames, and Abraham Tucker. He was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2012-13), and in 2018 gave the Benedict Lectures in the History of Political Philosophy at Boston University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

The second volume of Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century is a fitting companion to the first, and together they are the most informed and comprehensive anthological guides to this time and place. For anyone wanting to know accurately and intimately the story of Scottish philosophy in the eighteenth century, Garrett and Harris's two volumes are the definitive source.

• 1: Thomas Ahnert: The Philosophy Curriculum at Scottish Universities in the Eighteenth Century 2: Tamas Demeter: Philosophical Methods 3: Timothy Yenter: The Metaphysical Implications of Newtonianism 4: Giovanni Grandi: Theories of Perception 5: Lorne Falkenstein: The Intellectual Powers of the Human Mind 6: Ruth Boeker: The Active Powers of the Human Mind 7: John P. Wright and Kathryn Tabb: Habit and the Association of Ideas in the Scottish Enlightenment 8: Joseph Shieber: Language