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Alexander Bain (philosopher) Robert Balfour (philosopher) Andrew Baxter; James Beattie (poet) John Bethune (Scottish minister) Hugh Binning; Hector Boece; Thomas Brown (philosopher) Robert Buchanan (playwright) James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
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.
Cameo of Thomas Reid by James Tassie, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. Thomas Reid FRSE (/ r iː d /; 7 May (O.S. 26 April) 1710 [6] – 7 October 1796) was a religiously trained Scottish philosopher best known for his philosophical method, his theory of perception, and its wide implications on epistemology, and as the developer and defender of an agent-causal theory of free will.
David Hume. The Scottish School of Common Sense was an epistemological philosophy that flourished in Scotland in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. [4] Its roots can be found in responses to the writings of such philosophers as John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume, and its most prominent members were Dugald Stewart, Thomas Reid, William Hamilton and, as has recently been argued ...
John Veitch (24 October 1829 – 3 September 1894), Scottish philosopher, poet and historian. He was born in Peebles, the only son of Peninsular War veteran James Veitch and his wife Nancy Ritchie, a woman steeped in the folk traditions of the Borders. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh. [1]
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Pages in category "20th-century Scottish philosophers" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Michael Scot (Latin: Michael Scotus; 1175 – c. 1232) was a Scottish mathematician and scholar in the Middle Ages. He was educated at Oxford and Paris, and worked in Bologna and Toledo, where he learned Arabic. His patron was Frederick II of the Holy Roman Empire and Scot served as science adviser and court astrologer to him.