Douglas Mcdermid

Rise and Fall of Scottish Common Sense Realism

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780198789826
• ISBN-10: 0198789823
• Artikelnr.: 48812732

Autorenporträt

Douglas McDermid is associate professor of philosophy at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada. In addition to the history of Scottish philosophy, his research interests include epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, philosophy and literature, and the history of American philosophy. He is the author of journal articles on these topics and also of The Varieties of Pragmatism: Truth, Realism, and Knowledge From James to Rorty (Bloomsbury 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Reid and the Foundations of Scottish Common Sense
2: Kames and the Argument from Perceptual Reliability
3: Reid and the Problem of the External World
4: Stewart and Hamilton: Defenders of the Faith
5: Ferrier and the Myth of Scottish Common Sense Realism
6: Ferrier and the Foundations of Idealism
7: 'Scottish to the very core'