Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. The Study of the Scottish Enlightenment: an Autobiographical Journey
Part I: Scottish Enlightenment
Introduction to Part I
2. James Dunbar and Ideas of Sociality and Language in Eighteenth Century Scotland
3. James Dunbar and the Enlightenment Debate on Language
4."Climate" in the Eighteenth Century: James Dunbar and the Scottish Case
5. Sociality and Socialisation
6. Rude Religion: The Psychology of Polytheism in the Scottish Enlightenment
7. 'But art itself is Natural to Man': Ferguson and the Principle of Simultaneity
8. Finding Space for Civil Society
Part II: David Hume
Introduction to Part II
9. Hume on Rationality in History and Social Life
10. Lusty Women and Loose Imagination: Hume's Philosophical Anthropology of Chastity
11. Hume and the Customary Causes of Industry, Knowledge and Commerce
12. Hume's Universalism: The Science of Man and the Anthropological Point of View
13. Hume and Superfluous Value (or the problem with Epictetus' Slippers)
14. Science and Superstition: Hume and Conservatism
15. Hume on Happiness
Part III: Adam Smith
Introduction to Part III
16. Adam Smith's 'Considerations' on Language
17. Smith and Science
18. Adam Smith: Commerce, Liberty and Modernity
19. Adam Smith and the Virtues of a Modern Economy
20. Adam Smith's Science of Human Nature
21. Adam Smith on Liberty 'in our present sense of the word'