Dugald Stewart

Campbell's criticism of the Humean account of miracles, the philosophy of rhetoric, Ferguson's criticism of the idea of a state of nature, and finally the concept of conjectural history, a concept especially associated with Dugald Stewart.

Scottish Philosophy in the 18th Century Broadie, Alexander 2009

Brown (1778-1820) was a student of Dugald Stewart (1753-1828), who in turn was a student and friend of Reid and himself held the Chair of Moral Philosophy at both Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Ted Marcel Inhoff 2009

The incontrovertible logical maxim of Dugald Stewart should probably be accorded at most the status of a well-supported empirical generalisation.

Scottish Philosophy in the 18th Century Broadie, Alexander 2009

With growing evidence that France was preparing to resume war, the Edgeworth family party left Paris in early March 1803, returning to Edgeworthstown via Edinburgh, where they met and socialized with Dugald Stewart, one of the Scottish empiricists, and Elizabeth Hamilton, satirist, novelist, and educational thinker.

Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) 2008

For example, the “common sense” epistemology and naive “Baconian attitude” you correctly attribute owes a great deal to late 18th century Scottish Common Sense Enlightenment figures like Thomas Reid and Dugald Stewart.

Is Creationism Child's Play? - The Panda's Thumb 2007

The term was used this way by Bacon, Kepler, Newton, and Dugald Stewart, writers whose work was well-known to Whewell.

William Whewell Snyder, Laura J. 2006

Dugald Stewart has the honours of situation and architecture; Burns is memorialised lower down upon a spur; Lord Nelson, as befits a sailor, gives his name to the top-gallant of the Calton Hill.

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

At Edinburgh Mill took particular delight in the tutelage of Dugald Stewart, who carried on the tradition of Scottish moral philosophy.

James Mill Ball, Terence 2005

The criteria according to which Mill judges and criticizes Indian practices and customs derive from the view of historical progress that he had learned from Dugald Stewart and John Millar, amongst others.

James Mill Ball, Terence 2005

You see Dugald Stewart rather more handsomely commemorated than Burns.

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005