Sympathy and spectatorship in Scottish writing after Hume.(David Hume)(Essay)

From: The Monist | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: Glassford, John | Copyright information

A review of Edmund Husserl's account of "British" empiricism by certain analytic philosophers is both suggestive and misleading. (1) Scottish philosophers have often been cast as English or British for no better reason, it would appear, than that they follow so-called "English" empiricists chronologically, or because of their geographic proximity, or because they share a language with their Southern neighbors. It is certainly the case that Husserl himself, who first proposed that t...

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