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Alexander Broadie

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

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

Office Hours: Tuesday 11-12 and Wednesday 10-11

Research Day: Friday


Teaching

  • Undergraduate Courses
    • The European Enlightenment
    • Medieval Theories of the Just War

Research interests

  • The history of Scottish philosophy
  • The European Enlightenment

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
  • 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

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
  • '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, forthcoming
  • '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
  • 'Scotistic metaphysics and creation ex nihilo' in Creation and the God of Abraham, eds D. Burrell et al., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2009
  • 'Aristotle, Adam Smith and the virtue of propriety', in Journal of Scottish Philosophy, forthcoming 2010


Scholarly 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
  • 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