Sociological Heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment
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history of sociology
moral philosophy
Science of human nature
Scottish Enlightenment
Scottish philosophy
social epistemology
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- ISBN 9781399512343
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book provides answers to two sorts of questions. It explores, on the one hand, how and what sociological ideas were developed in the Scottish Enlightenment. And, on the other hand, how the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment would emerge and develop in subsequent traditions of sociology. Scottish Enlightenment thinkers developed and refined a descriptive-explanatory approach and methodology to explore social and economic processes – an approach that was different from the normative and justificatory aspirations of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century social and political philosophies. This distinct contribution of the Scottish Enlightenment is frequently overlooked, even if some of its central figures are acknowledged as important forerunners of contemporary social sciences.
This book offers a synoptic view on individual contributions and a connective view of theoretical achievements that are otherwise typically treated in isolation.
Tamás Demeter is Professor of Philosophy at the Corvinus University of Budapest and Senior Research Fellow at the HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest. He has published widely on David Hume, the connections of Scottish moral and natural philosophy, and the sociology of knowledge in Monist, Synthese, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, History of the Human Sciences, Early Science and Medicine. He has contributed chapters to collections Newton and Empiricism, The Oxford Handbook of Newton, and the forthoming Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, vol. II (all OUP). He is editor of Intellectuals, InstInequalities and Transitions, co-editor of Conflicting Values of Inquiry and (both Brill), and special issues of Synthese on “The Uses and Abuses of Mathematics in Early Modern Philosophy” and “Humeanisms”. He is author of David Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism (Brill, 2016).
