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Alexander Broadie

Professor Alexander Broadie, MA (Edin), PhD, DLitt (Glas), Hon DUniv (Blaise Pascal), FRSE

Honorary Professorial Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Logic and Rhetoric
Department of History
2 University Gardens
Glasgow G12 8QQ

Telephone.: (0)141 330 4078 and (0)141 330 4509
Fax: (0)141 330 5000
E-mail: A.Broadie@history.arts.gla.ac.uk


Publications

  • A Samaritan Philosophy, E.J.Brill, Leiden, 1981, pp.viii+246
  • George Lokert: Late-Scholastic Logician, Edinburgh University Press, 1983, pp.252
  • The Circle of John Mair: Logic and Logicians in Pre-Reformation Scotland, Oxford University Press, 1985, pp.280
  • Introduction to Medieval Logic, Oxford University Press, 1987, pp.vi+150
  • Notion and Object: Aspects of Late-Medieval Epistemology, Oxford University Press, 1989, pp.197
  • Paul of Venice: Logica Magna, Pt.II, fasc.3, (Classical and Medieval Logic Texts, VII) Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 1990, pp.xxvi+223
  • The Tradition of Scottish Philosophy, Polygon/Edinburgh University Press, 1990, pp.144
  • Robert Kilwardby O.P. On Time and Imagination. Pt 2 Introduction and Translation. (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, IX-2), Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 1993, pp.178
  • Introduction to Medieval Logic, Second edition, Oxford University Press, 1993, pp.219
  • The Shadow of Scotus: Philosophy and Faith in Pre-Reformation Scotland, T.&T.Clark, Edinburgh, 1995, pp.112
  • The Scottish Enlightenment: An Anthology Canongate Books, Edinburgh, 1997, pp.820
  • Why Scottish Philosophy Matters, Saltire Society, Edinburgh, 2000, pp.106
  • The Scottish Enlightenment:The Historical Age of the Historical Nation, Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2001, pp.240; 2nd ed. (paperback), 2007
  • The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp.366.  Chinese edition, Cambridge University Press and Zhejiang University Press, 2010
  • George Turnbull's Principles of Moral and Christian Philosophy, vols.1 and 2, edited, annotated and with Introduction, Liberty Press, Indianapolis, 2005
  • Thomas Reid on Logic, Rhetoric and the Fine Arts.  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2005, pp.L+350
  • A History of Scottish Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2009, pp.392; 2nd ed. (paperback), 2010.  Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year, 2009

Some recent or forthcoming papers

  • 'Duns Scotus on Sinful thought' in Scottish J. Theol., 49 no.3, 1996, pp.291-310
  • 'Thomas Reid making sense of moral sense' in Reid Studies, 1 no.2, 1998, 5-16
  • 'Scotus on God's relation to the world' in Brit.J.Hist.Phil., 7, 1999,1-13
  • 'Scotus on the unity of the virtues' in Studies in Christian Ethics, 1999, 70-83
  • 'The Scotist Thomas Reid' in American Catholic Phil. Q., 74 no.3, 2000, 385-407
  • 'George Campbell, Thomas Reid, and universals of language' in The Scottish Enlightenment: Essays in Reassessment, ed. P.Wood, Rochester University Press, 2000, 351-71
  • 'Duns Scotus and William Ockham' in The Medieval Theologians, ed. G.R.Evans, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 2001, 250-65
  • 'Scottish philosophy in the eighteenth century' in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2005
  • 'The association of ideas: Thomas Reid's context', Reid Studies, vol.5 no.2, 2002, 31-53
  • 'The mind and its powers' in The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment, ed. A.Broadie, CUP, 2003, 60-78
  • 'Art and aesthetic theory' in The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment, ed. A.Broadie, CUP, 2003, 280-97
  • 'Reid in context', in The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid, eds. T. Cuneo and R. Woudenberg, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp.31-52
  • 'Duns Scotus on ubiety and the fiery furnace', in British Journal of the History of Philosophy 13, 2005, 3-20
  • 'Sympathy and the impartial spectator' in The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith, ed. K.Haakonssen, CUP, 20056, pp.158-88
  • 'John Duns Scotus and the idea of independence', in The Wallace Book, ed. E.J.Cowan, Birlinn John Donald, 20076, pp.77-85 and 219-227
  • 'John Mair's Dialogus de materia theologo tractanda: Introduction, Text and Translation', in Christian Humanism, eds A.A. MacDonald, Z.R.W.M. Martels and J.R. Veenstra, Brill, Leiden, 2009, pp.419-30 
  • 'Hutcheson on connoisseurship and the role of reflection', in British Journal for the History of Philosophy 17, 2009, 351-64
  • 'Scottish philosophers in France: The earlier years', Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, vol.2, 2009, no.1, pp.1-12
  • 'Aristotle, Adam Smith and the virtue of propriety', in Journal of Scottish Philosophy, forthcoming 2010
  • 'Scotistic metaphysics and creation ex nihilo' in Creation and the God of Abraham, eds D. Burrell et al., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2010
  • 'Philosophy, religious revelation and the Enlightenment' in The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy, ed. James Harris, Oxford University Press, forthcoming
  • 'The common sense school and its descendents' in Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy, ed. G. Banham, Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming
  • 'The rise (and fall?) of the Scottish Enlightenment' in The Oxford Companion to Modern Scottish History, eds T. Devine and J. Wormald, Oxford University Press, forthcoming


Other activities

Glasgow University

  • 1998-2006 Convener, University Gifford Lectureship Committee
  • 1999-2002 Convener, Executive Committee, Glasgow Strathclyde School of Scottish Studies

Furth of Glasgow University

  • 1987-2001 Member, Medieval Texts Editorial Committee, British Academy
  • 1990-93 Henry Duncan Prize Lecturer in Scottish Studies, Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 1994 Gifford Lecturer in Natural Theology, Aberdeen University 
  • 1993-95 Convener, Sectional Committee 14 (philosophy, theology and law), Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 2002-05 Convener, Sectional Committee C4 (philosophy and theology), Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 2007-10 Member, Arts and humanities research awards committee, Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 2007-10 RSE/CRF European Visiting Research Fellowships Committee, Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 2008-09 Member, RSE/Edinburgh International Festival working party

Saltire Award

A History of Scottish Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, 2009, pp.392

The Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award has been presented to Professor Alexander Broadie, Emeritus Professor of Logic and Rhetoric, and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of History.  This prestigious award was given to Professor Broadie by Michael Russell MSP, the Scottish Minister for Culture, at the event held at the National Library of Scotland. 

The Saltire Society announces the arrangements for its literary awards in three categories: Scottish Book of the Year; Scottish First Book of the Year (by an author who has not previously published a book) and for 2009 only The Saltire Homecoming Literary Award. These awards may be given for any book by a living author of Scottish descent or living in Scotland, they may also be given for any book which deals with the work or life of a Scot - or with a Scottish question, event or situation. The book may be a novel, a play, poetry or other work of imaginative literature, biography, literary criticism or a study of any Scottish issue. Books of multiple authorship would not normally qualify.