Philosophy
Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:
Introductions, c1804
Volume consists of drafts of numerous introductions to 'natural philosophy'. They discuss the use of terms and laws, concerned less with scientific facts than with how to study science itself.
James Gregory on mathematics, c1692
An essay on mathematics and scientific enquiry by James Gregory, younger brother of David Gregory.
J:G de cogitatione, before 1675
Thoughts on thought itself. Probably unrelated doodling on the reverse.
John Macmurray Papers
The Papers of John Macmurray contain manuscripts and typescripts of works; transcripts and offprints; lectures and lecture notes, sermons and addresses; exercise books, note books, and loose pages; material in binders and folders.
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Lecture notes of John Borthwick of Crookston
Lectures by Dugald Stewart
3 small, soft-bound volumes of notes taken at lectures on moral pholosophy given by Dugald Stewart.
Letter, 27 March 1798, to James Chalmer, signed by Adam Ferguson
Autograph letter signed by Adam Ferguson to James Chalmer, solicitor, dated Hallyard, 27 March 1798.
The letter refers to a 'half yearly certificate' which Chalmer will have 'as usual'. and on which he 'will do the needfull'. Ferguson goes on to say that his 'son writes [...] that the Copper Plates are come to hand & I have desired impressions in order to know in which state they come out of Mr [?] keeping...'.
Letter regarding Ross Husband, 02 March 1917
Letter from John Baillie to [David Morison] Ross, detailing/assessing the student life, philosophy and general character of Peter Ross Husband (deceased), and quoted at length in Ross's biography of Husband.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Professor James Gordon MacGregor, 28 June 1903
MacGregor provides some financial estimates for the expansion of the Natural Philosophy Department at the University of Edinburgh.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Professor James Seth, enclosing his notes about various Professorships, 24 June 1903
Seth encloses his notes on the most important considerations concerning the professorships of Experimental Psychology, History of Philosophy and Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.