Jack A. Hill

Rational Piety and Social Reform in Glasgow

Philosophy

“In Rational Piety, Stephen Cowley presents an ambitious, and largely compelling, argument that the Glasgow professor James Mylne was an original thinker who filled a significant gap in the history of Scottish philosophy between the realism at the height of the eighteenth century and the Glasgow idealists of the later nineteenth century.” “Mylne’s correspondence, and information culled from numerous sources, including newspapers, journals, minutes of church, society, and university meetings, and Mylne’s library borrowing records. Fortunately, Cowley is up to the challenge, and his well researched, scholarly nuanced and meticulously documented study is a significant contribution to Scottish Philosophy.”