Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Homespun philosophy
Chapter 2 John Locke I - Opening up other worlds
Chapter 3 Adam Smith I - Theory of Moral Sentiments
Chapter 4 Adam Smith II – The Wealth of Nations
Chapter 5 Francis Hutcheson – A shared outlook
Chapter 6 Thomas Reid – Common Sense
Chapter 7 Dugald Stewart – The local philosopher
Chapter 8 Archibald Alison and William Greenfield –A confidence achieved
Appendix List of Authors or texts quoted or alluded to by William Greenfield in his Essays on the sources of the pleasures received from literary
composition, that were known to Robert Burns.
References and Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
J. Walter McGinty received his PhD at the University of Strathclyde on
‘Literary, Philosophical and Theological Influences on Robert Burns’.
Dr McGinty is an ordained Minister, having trained for the Ministry of
the Church of Scotland at the University of Glasgow and Trinity College
Glasgow. Other publications are Robert Burns and Religion, (Ashgate);
and Robert Burns the Book Lover: From Reader to Writer, (Humming
Earth.) The present volume completes the trilogy of books that have
examined the influence of the reading of Robert Burns. McGinty has
also written a biography, ‘An Animated Son of Liberty’: A Life of John
Witherspoon, (Arena) and has published papers on ‘John Goldie and
Robert Burns’ and ‘Milton’s Satan and Burns’s Auld Nick’ in Studies in
Scottish Literature Vols XXIX and XXXIII.
