Essays on David Hume, medical men, and the Scottish Enlightenment
Subtitle: industry, knowledge, and humanity
By: by Roger L. Emerson.
Series: Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780754666288
Subjects: Hume, David, -- 1711-1776; Philosophy, Scottish -- 18th century; Enlightenment -- Scotland; Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The world in which the Scottish Enlightenment took shape; title: Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll (1682-1761) : patronage and the creation of the Scottish Enlightenment; title: How many Scots were enlightened?; title: What did eighteenth-century Scottish students read?; title: Our excellent and never to be forgotten friend : David Hume (26 April 1711- 25 August 1776); title: Hume's intellectual development : part II, 1711-1762; title: Hume's histories; title: Hume's economics; title: Numbering the medics; title: Numbers and money; title: Who were they?; title: The émigrés as they appear in the American sample.