{"product_id":"the-sociological-heritage-of-the-scottish-enlightenment-9781399512336","title":"The Sociological Heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book provides answers to two sorts of questions. It explores, on the one hand, how and what sociological ideas were developed in the Scottish Enlightenment. And, on the other hand, how the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment would emerge and develop in subsequent traditions of sociology. Scottish Enlightenment thinkers developed and refined a descriptive-explanatory approach and methodology to explore social and economic processes - an approach that was different from the normative and justificatory aspirations of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century social and political philosophies. This distinct contribution of the Scottish Enlightenment is frequently overlooked, even if some of its central figures are acknowledged as important forerunners of contemporary social sciences. \u003cbr\u003eThis book offers a synoptic view on individual contributions and a connective view of theoretical achievements that are otherwise typically treated in isolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTam?s Demeter is Professor of Philosophy at the Corvinus University of Budapest and Senior Research Fellow at the HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest. He has published widely on David Hume, the connections of Scottish moral and natural philosophy, and the sociology of knowledge in \u003ci\u003eMonist, Synthese, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, History of the Human Sciences, Early Science and Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e. He has contributed chapters to collections \u003ci\u003eNewton and Empiricism, The Oxford Handbook of Newton\u003c\/i\u003e, and the forthoming \u003ci\u003eScottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, vol. II \u003c\/i\u003e(all OUP). He is editor of \u003ci\u003eIntellectuals, InstInequalities and Transitions\u003c\/i\u003e, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eConflicting Values of Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e and (both Brill), and special issues of \u003ci\u003eSynthese\u003c\/i\u003e on \"The Uses and Abuses of Mathematics in Early Modern Philosophy\" and \"Humeanisms\". He is author of \u003ci\u003eDavid Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism\u003c\/i\u003e (Brill, 2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50919412203794,"sku":"9781399512336","price":156.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_381470ae-1479-44fe-831a-eea9b865dfc7.jpg?v=1738893355","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-sociological-heritage-of-the-scottish-enlightenment-9781399512336","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}