The Scottish philosopher Dugald Stewart (1753-1828) was a proponent of Reid's commonsense philosophy in Scotland. Dugald Stewart was born on Nov. 22, 1753, in Edinburgh. His father was a professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. At 13...

During a teaching and writing career of more than forty years at Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart exercised an immense influence on the minds of men in Britain, Europe, and America. That influence did not arise from innovative qualities in Stewart's work, for...

Stewart, Dugald(1753–1828) Dugald Stewart was an Edinburgh professor of moral philosophy who expounded the common sense theory of Thomas Reid and the libertarian political economy of Adam Smith. He taught from 1785 until illness forced his...

Dugald Stewart (November 22, 1753 - June 11, 1828), Scottish philosopher, was born in Edinburgh. His father, Matthew Stewart (1715 - 1785), was professor of mathematics in the University of Edinburgh (1747 -...

1. Common Sense, Faculties, and Stewart's Relation to Thomas Reid Consideration of questions that concern modern aesthetics play a prominent role in Dugald Stewart's work, which stands at the end of two traditions--the eighteenth-century tradition of writings on taste, and the common-sense...