The "Science of man" in the Scottish Enlightenment : Hume, Reid, and their contemporaries / edited by Peter Jones.

Contributor Jones, Peter, 1935 December 18-

Imprint:Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c1989.

Descriptionviii, 204 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:Spine title: The science of man.

Note:"Based on lectures given during the 1986 Institute Project on the Scottish Enlightenment (IPSE 86), organised by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities of the University of Edinburgh."--Pref.

Note:David Hume and the common people / Harvey Chisick -- Hume on women's complexion / Annette C. Baier -- Hume and the beginnings of modern aesthetics / Peter Jones -- Hume on the natural history of philosophical consciousness / Donald Livingston -- Enthusiasm, fanaticism and David Hume / John Passmore -- Beyond impressions and ideas: Hume v. Reid / Keith Lehrer -- Reid's contribution to Hume's "Problem" / Manfred Kuehn -- "Pray what language did your wild couple speak, when they first met?" : language and the science of man in the Scottish Enlightenment / Rüdiger Schreyer -- Boswell and the tensions of the Enlightenment / Thomas Crawford.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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