Introduction: Common sense in the Scottish enlightenment

C. B. Bow

doi:10.1093/oso/9780198783909.001.0001

Introduction: Common sense in the Scottish enlightenment

C. B. Bow

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Abstract

This volume of essays considers the philosophical and historical significance of common sense philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment. As one of eighteenth-century Scotland’s most original intellectual products, common sense philosophy dominated the teaching of moral philosophy and the “science of the mind” at Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen universities during the last quarter of the century, and also informed many Presbyterian clergymen’s treatment of human nature from the pulpit…

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	1-18
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9780198783909
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198783909.001.0001
Publication status	Published - 2018 Jan 1

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Bow, C. B. (2018). Introduction: Common sense in the Scottish enlightenment. In Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment (pp. 1-18). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198783909.001.0001

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