Dictionary Of 18th-Century British Philosophers

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This is a comprehensive reference source on 18th-century authors writing in the English language about philosophical ideas and issues. It features authors taken from 1689 through to the mid-19th century, the period beginning with John Locke and ending with Dugald Stewart. The word "philosophical" is used in a wide, 18th-century sense. Therefore, the "Dictionary" includes epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, education, politics, rhetoric, science, medicine, biology, geology, chemistry and theology. The book includes short biographies of the writers, and expositions and analyses of their doctrines and ideas.

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'These two handsome, fat volumes present the reader with an impressively varied and colourful crowd of people...and the eclecticism of such large numbers of less celebrated or even frankly obscure people is impressive' 'An attempt at increasing our historical sensitivity... It does so by providing us with a deepened insight into actual or possible sources and by offering us a wealth of resources...a very lively and tremendously exciting enterprise' -- Marina Frasca-Spada * British Journal for the History of Philosophy *

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John Yolton is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Rutgers University. John Valdimir Price was formerly Senior Lecturer and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. John Stephens is Director, Robin Waterfield, Oxford.