Ebook: The Rise and Fall of Scottish Common Sense Realism
- Tags: Kames Henry Home -- Lord -- 1696-1782, Reid Thomas -- 1710-1796, Hamilton William -- Sir -- 1788-1856, Ferrier James Frederick -- 1808-1864, Realism, Philosophy Scottish -- 18th century, Philosophy Scottish -- 19th century, Philosophy Scottish, Philosophie, Common Sense, Schottland
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: Schottland
- Edition: First edition.
- Language: English
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Douglas McDermid presents a study of the remarkable flourishing of Scottish philosophy from the 18th to the mid-19th century. He examines how Kames, Reid, Stewart, Hamilton, and Ferrier gave illuminating treatments of the central philosophical problem of the existence of a material world independently of perception and thought.