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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/36045| Appears in Collections: | Economics Journal Articles |
| Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
| Title: | SMITH AT 300: ADAM SMITH ON RHETORIC AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE |
| Author(s): | Dow, Sheila |
| Contact Email: | s.c.dow@stir.ac.uk |
| Issue Date: | Jun-2023 |
| Date Deposited: | 16-May-2024 |
| Citation: | Dow S (2023) SMITH AT 300: ADAM SMITH ON RHETORIC AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. <i>Journal of the History of Economic Thought</i>, 45 (2), pp. 187-189. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1053837222000530 |
| Abstract: | First paragraph: “We need not be surprised … that the Cartesian philosophy …, though it does not perhaps contain a word of truth, … should nevertheless have been so universally received by all the Learned in Europe at that time. … [They] greedily receive[d] a work which we justly esteem one of the most entertaining Romances that has ever been wrote.” LRBL ii.134 I have selected this quotation for special attention because we can identify from it and the surrounding passages in the Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (Smith [1762–63] Reference Smith and Bryce1983; LRBL) key elements of Adam Smith’s philosophy of science. At the same time the quotation provides an example of Smith’s own arresting use of rhetoric. |
| DOI Link: | 10.1017/s1053837222000530 |
| Rights: | This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. |
| Licence URL(s): | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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