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Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, 10 May 1813 The Fraser Tytler family vault, Greyfriars Kirkyard. Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee FRSE (15 October 1747 – 5 January 1813) was a Scottish advocate, judge, writer, and historian who was a Professor of Universal History and of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the University of Edinburgh.
Pages in category "Scottish philosophers" The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total. ... Alexander Bain (philosopher) Robert Balfour (philosopher ...
Scottish philosophy is a philosophical tradition created by philosophers belonging to Scottish universities. Although many philosophers such as Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Thomas Reid, and Adam Smith are familiar to almost all philosophers it was not until the 19th century that the notion of 'Scottish philosophy' became recognized and highly regarded internationally.
Scottish: Philosopher who developed Common Sense Realism. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: 1712–1778: Swiss: Political philosopher, educational reformer, composer; Encyclopédist who influenced many Enlightenment figures but did not himself believe in the primacy of reason and was a forerunner of Romanticism. Giovanni Salvemini: 1708-1791: Italian
Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (/ ˈ æ l ə s t ər ˈ m æ k ɪ n t aɪər /; born 12 January 1929) is a Scottish-American philosopher who has contributed to moral and political philosophy as well as history of philosophy and theology. [1]
The first major philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment was Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746), who was professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow from 1729 to 1746. He was an important link between the ideas of Shaftesbury and the later school of Scottish Common Sense Realism , developing Utilitarianism and Consequentialist thinking. [ 31 ]
Alexander Smith (philosopher) (1796–1851), Scottish philosopher; Alexander Smith (poet) (1829–1867), Scottish poet; Alexander Howland Smith (1859–1913), Scottish document forger in the 1880s; Alexander McCall Smith (born 1948), British writer and professor of medical law; Alexander O. Smith (born 1973), English/Japanese translator and writer
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