Grice on the latitudinal unity of philosophy

by JLS
for the GC

Harris's book is originally DPhil Oxon under Galen Strawson! He was a Fellow at St. Catherine's, Oxford. He acknowledges Wiggins.

A more detailed table of contents:

Introduction
From Locke to Dugald Stewart
-- The free will problem in the eighteenth century
-- Summary of the narrative

Chapter 1
LOCKE’s Chapter ‘Of Power’ and its Eighteenth-Century Reception
-- First thoughts about freedom and choice
-- Second thoughts
-- Third thoughts?
-- ‘Of Power’ in the eighteenth century

Chapter 2
King, Clarke, Collins
-- KING and the liberty of indiVerence
-- CLARK and ‘moral’ necessity
-- COLLINS’s return to Hobbes 53
-- The Clarkean reply to Collins
-- Libertarianism after Clarke

Chapter 3
Hume’s Reconciling Project
-- ‘Of Liberty and Necessity’ in the "Treatise" and in the "First Enquiry"
-- Necessity in the operations of matter
-- All men have ever agreed in the doctrine of necessity
-- All men have ever agreed in the doctrine of liberty
-- Interpretations of Hume’s reconciling project

Chapter 4
Kames’s Hypothesis
-- Liberty and necessity in the first edition of the "Essays"
-- The reception of the first edition
-- Liberty and necessity in the second and third editions
-- Kames and the philosophy of common sense

Chapter 5
Jonathan Edwards against Arminianism
-- Edwards as Lockean philosopher
-- The refutation of libertarianism (i): the regress argument
-- The refutation of libertarianism (ii): volitions and their causes
-- Edwards and Hobbes compared
-- American supernaturalism and British naturalism

Chapter 6
The Bare Authority of Feeling: James Beattie in Context
-- BUTLER, Berkeley, PRICE, OSWALD, BALFOUR
-- Beattie’s way with the sceptic
-- Beattie’s reply to the necessitarian
-- Beattie as experimental philosopher?
-- The success of the "Essay on Truth"

Chapter 7
Hartley, Tucker, Priestley
-- HARTLEY on association, mechanism, and providence
-- TUCKER between Locke and Hartley
-- PRIESTLEY’s ‘philosophical’ necessitarianism
-- Priestley on consciousness and responsibility

Chapter 8
Science and Freedom in Thomas REID
-- Freedom of the will as a first principle
-- Replies to the necessitarian
-- Reid and Kant: a brief comparison

Chapter 9
Liberty and Necessity after Reid
-- James GREGORY’s ‘Essay’
-- Replies to Gregory: ALLEN and CROMBIE
-- Philosophical necessity after Priestley
-- STEWART on the active and moral powers of man
-- Stewart on Kant

Postscript The Nineteenth Century and Afterwards