Scottish Philosophy after the Enlightenment

In Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press (2015)
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This chapter places succeeding chapters, and the relation between them, in a narrative intellectual history of philosophy in Scotland after the Enlightenment, as well as its influence in intellectual developments abroad. It highlights a recurrent instability that lies within the Scottish Enlightenment project of a ‘science of human nature’, namely the tension between traditional metaphysical questions, and the emerging empirical sciences of economics, politics, sociology, and psychology. It traces the slow fracturing of the Enlightenment project, and its replacement by a division between philosophical Idealism on the one hand and positivistic social science on the other. The chapter concludes by exploring the impact of this division into the twentieth century.

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