1st Edition

British Philosophy in the Long Eighteenth Century Themes from Kenneth P. Winkler

Edited By Bridger Ehli, Matthew A. Leisinger Copyright 2026
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

No one has done more to deepen our appreciation of eighteenth-century British philosophy than Kenneth P. Winkler. Winkler’s work has had a decisive influence on our understanding of virtually all the period’s major figures and has also helped to bring light to the enduring philosophical significance of less well-known figures. The chapters in this volume extend our understanding of themes that... Read more

Introduction

Bridger Ehli and Matthew A. Leisinger

1 Locke on modes, substances, and demonstration

Jennifer Smalligan Marušić

2 Locke on knowledge of our own existence and the subjective constitution of the self

Matthew A. Leisinger

3 The complexity of causation and immaterialism

Margaret Atherton

4 Teleological hedonism in the service of anti-egoism: A new look at the stone passage in Bishop Butler’s Sermon XI

Alison McIntyre

5 Francis Hutcheson on the character of virtue

Aaron Garrett

6 Supposition and realism in Hume

Bridger Ehli

7 The pleasures of truth and intrinsic motivation in Hume’s account of epistemic curiosity

Manuel Vasquez Villavicencio

8 The forensic notion of the self and the sensible knave

Kate Abramson

9 Ornament, beauty, and superstition in David Hume and Elizabeth Montagu

Timothy Yenter

10 David Hume and T. H. Huxley on language, thought, and animal minds

Jonathan Cottrell

11 Reid’s bodies

Matthew Stuart

12 Mary Shepherd and the “thin gauze” of sensation

Deborah Boyle

Biography

Bridger Ehli is an assistant professor of philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. His published work has appeared in the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Mind, and Philosophical Quarterly.

Matthew A. Leisinger is an associate professor of philosophy at York University, Canada. His published work has appeared in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Locke Studies, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, and The Oxford Handbook of Locke.