The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century

The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century

by James A. Harris (Editor)
The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century

The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century

by James A. Harris (Editor)

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Overview

Philosophy in eighteenth-century Britain was diverse, vibrant, and sophisticated. This was the age of Hume and Berkeley and Reid, of Hutcheson and Kames and Smith, of Ferguson and Burke and Wollstonecraft. Important and influential works were published in every area of philosophy, from the theory of vision to theories of political resistance, from the philosophy of language to accounts of ways of governing the passions. The philosophers of eighteenth-century Britain were enormously influential, in France, in Italy, in Germany, and in America. Their ideas and arguments remain a powerful presence in philosophy three centuries later. This Oxford Handbook is the first book ever to provide comprehensive coverage of the full range of philosophical writing in Britain in the eighteenth century. It provides accounts of the writings of all the major figures, but also puts those figures in the context provided by a host of writers less well known today. The book has five principal sections: 'Logic and Metaphysics', 'The Passions', 'Morals', 'Criticism', and 'Politics'. Each section comprises four chapters, providing detailed coverage of all of the important aspects of its subject matter. There is also an introductory section, with chapters on the general character of philosophizing in eighteenth-century Britain, and a concluding section on the important question of the relation at this time between philosophy and religion. The authors of the chapters are experts in their fields. They include philosophers, historians, political theorists, and literary critics, and they teach in colleges and universities in Britain, in Europe, and in North America.

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ISBN-13: 9780191502699
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 10/03/2013
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction, James A. HarrisPART 1: THE LANGUAGES OF PHILOSOPHY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN1. Locke and his legacy, TIMOTHY STANTON2. Newton and Newtonianism in eighteenth-century British thought, ERIC SCHLIESSER3. The idea of a science of human nature, JACQUELINE TAYLOR4. Rhetoric and eloquence: the language of persuasion, PADDY BULLARDPART 2: LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS5. Perception and the Language of Nature, REBECCA COPENHAVER6. Language and thought, LAURENT JAFFRO7. The understanding, JOHN P. WRIGHT8. Mind and matter, AARON GARRETTPART 3: THE PASSIONS9. Passions, affections, sentiments: taxonomy and terminology, AMY SCHMITTER10. Reason and the passions, TERENCE CUNEO11. Liberty and necessity, SEAN GREENBERG12. The government of the passions, JAMES A. HARRISPART 4: MORALS13. Self-interest and sociability, CHRISTIAN MAURER14. Moral judgment, P. J. E. KAIL15. The nature of virtue, Dario Perinetti16. Practical ethics, COLIN HEYDTPART 5: CRITICISM17. The pleasures of the imagination and the objects of taste, PAUL GUYER18. The faculty of taste, TIMOTHY M. COSTELLOE19. The pleasures of tragedy, EVA DADLEZ20. Genius and the creative imagination, PETER KIVYPART 6: POLITICS21. The origin of civil government, DARIO CASTIGLIONE22. Forms of government, CRAIG SMITH23. Reform and revolution, NEIL McARTHUR24. Luxury, commerce, and the rise of political economy, RICHARD WHATMOREPART 7: PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION25. Causation, cosmology, and the limits of philosophy: the early eighteenth-century British debate, PAUL RUSSELL26. Philosophy, revealed religion, and 'The Enlightenment', ALEXANDER BROADIE27. Religion and morality, THOMAS AHNERT
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