The Rise and Fall of Scottish Common Sense Realism First Edition Ferrier

The Rise and Fall of Scottish Common Sense Realism – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780191848094,9780192507068,0191848093,0192507060

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198789823
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198789826
• Author(s): Ferrier, James Frederick; Hamilton, William; Kames, Henry Home; McDermid, Douglas; Reid, Thomas

The Rise and Fall of Scottish Common Sense Realism examines the ways in which five Scottish philosophers – Lord Kames (1696-1782), Thomas Reid (1710-1796), Dugald Stewart (1753-1828), Sir William Hamilton (1788-1856), and James Frederick Ferrier (1808-1864) – tackled a problem which has haunted Western philosophy ever since Descartes: that of determining whether any form of perceptual realism is defensible, or whether the very idea of a material world existing independently of perception and thought is more trouble than it is worth. This century-long conversation about the relation between mind and world led these five Scots to think uncommonly hard about a host of challenging issues in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and meta-philosophy.

Table contents:

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’
Bibliography
Name Index
General Index

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