Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Prologue 1
5. PART I. The Growth of a Common Sense Philosophy of Science
6. Chapter 1: The Integration of Moral Philosophy and Natural Philosophy in Scottish Academia 11
7. Chapter 2: The Origins of Common Sense Philosophical Concern with the Nature of Science: Bacon and Newton Revisited in the Light of Hume 26
8. Chapter 3: Common Sense Concerns with the Nature of Mathematics 55
9. Chapter 4: A Change in Mood: Dugald Stewart, Thomas Brown, and the Acceptance of Hypothetical and Analogical Methods in Science 94
10. Chapter 5: Thomas Brown and William Hamilton: The Relativity of Scientific Knowledge and the Triumph of Simplicity and Analogy 125
11. PART II. The Influence of Common Sense Ideas on the Exact Sciences in Britain
12. Chapter 6: Common Sense Reflections in the Natural Philosophy of John Robison and John Playfair 157
13. Chapter 7: Common Sense Elements in Scientific Reviews: 1790-1840 169
14. Chapter 8: John Leslie and Henry Brougham: Model Common Sense Scientists of the First Generation 194
15. Chapter 9: Common Sense Concerns Once Removed: James D. Forbes and John James Waterston 225
16. Chapter 10: Sir John Herschel's Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy and the Common Sense Tradition 252
17. Chapter 11: The Methodological Writings of William John Macquorn Rankine 271
18. Chapter 12: Culmination of the Tradition: Metaphysics and Method in the Works of James Clerk Maxwell 287
19. Epilogue 323
20. Index 337