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A History of Scottish Philosophy
The first-ever substantial account of the Scottish philosophical tradition. The book focuses on a number of philosophers from the later-thirteenth to the mid- twentieth century and attends indicates philosophy's intimate relatation to Scottish culture. It treats the great philosophers—John Duns Scotus, Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith, and Thomas Reid, and the lesser-known but still brilliant John Mair, George Lokert, Frederick Ferrier, Andrew Seth, Norman Kemp Smith, and John Macmurray.
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Adam Ferguson, Classical Republicanism and the Imperative of Modernity
Among the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, none was more overtly republican than Adam Ferguson. This essay considers Ferguson’s republicanism both in its relation to the modernity of his day and in relation to the modernity of ours. The concept of modernity that I shall be deploying is one that I believe to be an inseparable and major element within the broader concept of Enlightenment. Such a concept of modernity is well represented in the Scotland of our era by Neil MacCormick who, I shall argue, may fairly be seen as a literatus in the Fergusonian mould. This perception of the relation
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