Scottish Common Sense Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment

Of the distinctive ideas associated with the Scottish Enlightenment, the so-called Scottish School of Common Sense dominated late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Scottish moral philosophy. From its Scottish origin in the Aberdeen Philosophical Society (also known as the ‘Wise Club’) and some disagreement over the term ‘common sense’, Common Sense philosophy gradually became known in the wider Republic of Letters as Scottish philosophy. This three-day conference will advance a better understanding of the early development of Scottish Common Sense philosophy, philosophers associated with the Scottish School of Common Sense, and the reasons why this philosophical system flourished and later declined.

To register for the conference, please go to the University of Edinburgh ePay Site:

http://www.epay.ed.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=69&catid=10&prodid=1386

Please note that discounted registration fees for this conference are offered to BSHP members. To join the Society, visit: http://www.bshp.org.uk/membership

Ordinary, concessionary and full membership options are available. Full members receive 6 issues per year of the Society’s journal, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, one of the leading journals for the history of philosophy worldwide.  Sample issues of the Journal may be viewed on the publisher’s website at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rbjh20/19/6#.Uuk3YP3fboE

The conference is generously supported by the Mind Association, Scots Philosophical Association, and Taylor & Francis publishers.