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Author Brown, Thomas, 1778-1820.

Title Thomas Brown : selected philosophical writings / edited and introduced by Thomas Dixon
Published Exeter, UK ; Charlottesville, VA. : Imprint Academic, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (iv, 190 pages)
Series Library of Scottish philosophy
Library of Scottish philosophy.
Contents Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Copyright page; Series Editor's Note; Body matter; I: Introduction; II: Observations; III: Inquiry; IV: Sketch; V: Lectures; Back matter; Also available
Summary Thomas Brown (1778-1820), Professor of Moral Philosophy in Edinburgh, was among the most prominent and widely read British philosophers of the first half of the nineteenth century. An influential interpreter of both Hume and Reid, Brown provided a bridge between the Scottish school of 'Common Sense' and the later positivism of John Stuart Mill and others. The selections in this volume illustrate Brown's original ideas about mental science, cause and effect, emotions and ethics. They are prec ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 24-30) and index
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Subject Brown, Thomas, 1778-1820.
SUBJECT Brown, Thomas, 1778-1820 fast
Subject Philosophy, Scottish -- 19th century.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Philosophy, Scottish
Form Electronic book
Author Dixon, Thomas (Thomas M.)
LC no. 2010533218
ISBN 9781845404345
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1845404351
9781845404352
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9781283693035