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Sympathy : a history
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ISBN: 9780199928897 9780199928873 0199928894 0199928878 0190247193 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Adam Smith: systematic philosopher and public thinker
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ISBN: 9780190690120 0190690127 0190690151 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Oxford University Press

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Eric Schliesser's Adam Smith is the product of two decades' reflection by the author on the great Scottish Enlightenment. Unique among treatments of Adam Smith, Schliesser's book treats him as a systematic philosopher. Smith was a giant of the Scottish Enlightenment with polymath interests; Schliesser thus explores Smith's economics and ethics in light of his other commitments on the nature of knowledge, the theory of emotions, the theory of mind, his account of language, the nature of causation, and his views on methodology. He places Smith's ideas in the context of a host of other philosophers, especially Hume, Rousseau, and Newton; and he draws on the reception of Smith's ideas by Sophie de Grouchy, Mary Wollstonecraft, and other philosophers and economists to sketch the elements of, and the detailed connections within, Smith's system. Adam Smith traces the outlines of Smith's intellectual system and situates it in the context of his highly developed views on the norms that govern responsible speech. In particular, the book articulates Smith's concerns about the impact of his public policy recommendations, especially on the least powerful in society. In so doing, Schliesser offers new interpretations of Smith's views on the invisible hand, the Wealth of Nations, his treatment of virtue, the nature of freedom, the individual's relationship to society, his account of the passions, the moral roles of religion, and his treatment of the role of mathematics in economics. While the book does offer a single argument, it is organized in a modular fashion and includes a helpful index; readers with a more focused interest in Smith's achievements can skip to their section of interest.--


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Ten neglected classics of philosophy
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ISBN: 9780199928927 0199928924 9780199928903 0199928908 0190631961 0199928916 0190268921 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Oxford University Press

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Newton's metaphysics: essays
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ISBN: 9780197567692 019756769X Year: 2021 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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"Not so long ago the scientific revolution was interpreted in terms of competing metaphysically loaded worldviews. For example, Koyré argued, to simplify, that Huygens and Leibniz rejected Newton's physics because they (correctly) thought it incompatible with the mechanical philosophy, which Newton, in turn, rejected as wedded to the wrong kind of hypotheses (see, e.g., Koyré 1950: 262). While not strictly false this picture is misleading because the debate between Huygens and Newton was also centered on empirical arguments, which helped settled it (Schliesser & Smith 1995; Maglo 2003; Schliesser & Smith, forthcoming). In fact, by building on I.B. Cohen's idea of a 'Newtonian style,' and by focusing on Newton's evidential arguments, George Smith (2014) and Bill Harper (2011) revolutionized Newton studies (see also Harper & Smith 1995; for an overview, Smeenk & Schliesser 2013)"--


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Neglected classics of philosophy
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ISBN: 9780190097196 9780190097202 9780190097226 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Oxford University Press

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Newton and empiricism
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ISBN: 9780199337095 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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The Oxford handbook of Newton
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ISBN: 9780199930418 0199930414 9780199984275 0199984271 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press

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This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online. For more information, please read the site FAQs.


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Philosophy and its history : aims and methods in the study of early modern philosophy
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ISBN: 9780199857142 9780199857166 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press

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Interpreting Newton : critical essays
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ISBN: 9781107624870 9780521766180 9780511994845 9781139161176 1139161172 9781139159128 1139159127 0511994842 1139157361 9781139157360 0521766184 9781139157360 1139152696 1107217490 1280886765 1139160184 9786613728074 113915561X 1107624878 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge [etc.] Cambridge University Press

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This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading scholars presents new research on Isaac Newton and his main philosophical interlocutors and critics. The essays analyze Newton's relation to his contemporaries, especially Barrow, Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke, and discuss the ways in which a broad range of figures, including Hume, MacLaurin, Maupertuis, and Kant, reacted to his thought. The wide range of topics discussed includes the laws of nature, the notion of force, the relation of mathematics to nature, Newton's argument for universal gravitation, his attitude toward philosophical empiricism, his use of "fluxions," his approach toward measurement problems, and his concept of absolute motion, together with new interpretations of Newton's matter theory. The volume concludes with an extended essay that analyzes the changes in physics wrought by Newton's Principia. A substantial introduction and bibliography provide essential reference guides


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Sophie de Grouchy's Letters on sympathy : a critical engagement with Adam Smith's The theory of moral sentiments
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ISBN: 9780190637095 9780190637125 9780190637101 9780190637118 9780190637088 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Oxford University Press

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