Nicholas Phillipson is Honorary Research Fellow in History at Edinburgh, where he has taught since 1965. He has held visiting appointments at Princeton, Yale, Tulsa, the Folger Library, Washington DC and the Ludwigs-Maximilian Universitat, Munich. He is co-director of a three-year Leverhulme-funded project on the Science of Man in Scotland. He was an associate editor of the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, a founder editor of the journal Modern Intellectual History, published by the Cambridge University Press, and is a past president of the Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society.
5 Ebooks par Nicholas Phillipson
Phillipson Nicholas Phillipson: Adam Smith
This fascinating intellectual biography of Adam Smith dramatically rewrites the economist’s life and offers new insight into his iconic concepts The great eighteenth-century British economist A …
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Phillipson Nicholas Phillipson: David Hume
A giant of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, David Hume was one of the most important philosophers ever to write in English. He was also a brilliant historian. In this book—a new and revise …
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Nicholas Phillipson: Adam Smith
Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas – that of the ‘Invisible Hand’ of the market and that ‘It is …
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Nicholas Phillipson: David Hume
‘A skilful and lucid study … Hume’s History has been unjustly neglected at the expense of his philosophy. Phillipson’s book should help redress the balance’ London Review of Books’For pray, what is …
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Robert D. Anderson & Michael Lynch: University of Edinburgh
From a small city college in the sixteenth century the University of Edinburgh grew to be one of the world’s greatest centres of scholarship, research and learning. Its history is told here by three …
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