{"product_id":"david-hume-and-the-aberdeen-philosophers-reid-campbell-gerard-beattie-9781399541619","title":"David Hume and the Aberdeen Philosophers: Reid, Campbell, Gerard, Beattie","description":"David Hume is the most famous philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment. Yet his prominence in the history of philosophy has had the unhappy effect of overshadowing some of the most insightful critics amongst his contemporaries. This book aims to restore the philosophical credentials of a remarkable set of eighteenth-century philosophers based in Aberdeen's two university colleges. In their own time, Thomas Reid, George Campbell, Alexander Gerard and James Beattie provided compelling counters to the intellectual dominance of Hume's Edinburgh. Though they are now largely neglected, all four prove to be philosophers of striking critical acumen. Their work can still cast fresh light on Hume's influential contribution to the enduring philosophical questions of morality, religion, aesthetics and politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGraham, Gordon:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Gordon Graham is Director of the Edinburgh Sacred Arts Festival. He previously taught philosophy at the University of St Andrews, University of Aberdeen, and Princeton Theological Seminary. The author of twenty books on a wide range of subjects in aesthetics, politics and moral philosophy, he has also published extensively on the Scottish philosophical tradition. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and winner of an Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society Lifetime Achievement Award, he was founding editor of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Scottish Philosophy \u003c\/i\u003eand general editor of the Oxford History of Scottish Philosophy. His books include \u003ci\u003eScottish Philosophy after the Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51384435245330,"sku":"9781399541619","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a4fb8820-cb23-4c39-ba8e-5bb5d3a35856.jpg?v=1750173772","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/david-hume-and-the-aberdeen-philosophers-reid-campbell-gerard-beattie-9781399541619","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}