Christopher J Berry
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 555097 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Christopher J Berry |
| PRENOMES | Christopher J |
| SOBRENOME | Berry |
| ASSINATURA | BERRY C J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3512-3604 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Once in a blue Mooney! Using the effects of prior exposure to elicit qualitative differences in naming of multi-identity images
Kelley’s Paradox and strength skewness in research on unconscious mental processes
A widely adopted approach in research on unconscious perception and cognition involves contrasting behavioral or neural responses to stimuli that have been presented to participants (e.g., old items in a memory test) against those that have not (e.g., new items), and which participants do not discriminate in their conscious reports. We demonstrate that such contrasts do not license inferences about unconscious processing, for two reasons. One is …
The Idea of Luxury
My book The Idea of Luxury: A Conceptual and Historical Investigation was published in 1994 (still in print). While what follows is bound to be self-referential and also presumptuous in that it is premised on there being some interest in these reflections on the book a quarter of a century plus later. The partial defense is that the book has been extensively cited and widely acknowledged as an important and influential contribution. In the period…
O problema da coesão na sociedade comercial
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Margaret Watkins, The Philosophical Progress of Hume's Essays
Lusty Women and Loose Imagination
The theme is sexual regulation, and its necessity in the light of the dynamics of sex and reproduction, as outlined in Hume’s philosophy. The focus is on his treatment of chastity. The analysis uncovers some more general anthropological assumptions and their bearing upon what Rawls calls the ‘circumstances of justice’. The interplay between chastity as an artificial convention and its natural foundations is developed. Hume’s version of the ‘doubl…
Essays on Hume, Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment
A collection of essays by a leading scholar. The work selected spans several decades, which together with three new unpublished pieces, cumulatively constitute a distinct interpretation of the Scottish Enlightenment as a whole while incorporating detailed examination of the work of David Hume and Adam Smith. There is, in addition, a substantial introduction which, alongside Berry’s personal intellectual history, provides a commentary on the devel…
Essays on Hume, Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment
A carefully curated selection of new and classic essays by Scottish Enlightenment expert Christopher J. Berry This collection of essays by Christopher J. Berry spans several decades and multiple shifts across Scottish Enlightenment, Hume and Smith studies. It brings together classic essays – some of which are difficult to find – with 3 new pieces, which cumulatively constitute a distinct interpretation. Clustered around the themes of sociability,…
Adam Smith
In 1776, Adam Smith (1723-90) wrote The Wealth of Nations, the foundational book that led to him being called the 'father of economics'. However, Adam Smith was far more than an economist. Adam Smith is introduced through an overview of his writings and moral philosophy. Adam Smith: A Very Short Introduction offers a balanced and nuanced view of this seminal thinker, embedding his fierce defence of free trade, competition, and assault on special …
What does learning for all mean for DFID's global education work
The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment
The book examines the writings of the Scottish Enlightenment, focusing on their conception of a commercial society. This focus captures both what the Scottish Enlightenment is now best known for as well as what contemporaneously most engaged its participants. This engagement critically involved a re-calibration of social norms and that, in turn, entailed a re-thinking of the constituents (institutions, behaviour and so on) of ‘society’. Central t…
The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment
A definitive exposition of a key idea shaping the world we know today GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748645329','ISBN:9780748645336','ISBN:9780748684533']); The most arresting aspect of the Scottish Enlightenment is its conception of commercial society as a distinct and distinctive social formation. Christopher Berry explains why Enlightenment thinkers considered commercial society to be wealthier and freer than earlier forms, and charts…
Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment
The Idea Of Commercial Society In The Scottish Enlightenment
Commerce, Stages and the Natural History of Society
The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith
Adam Smith (1723–90) is best known as the author of the (1776). Although this book remains one of the great works in the history of economics, Smith was a multi-faceted thinker. He wrote an important treatise of moral philosophy, (1759), and was also a sophisticated and learned historian, an attentive student of social behaviour and an analyst of culture. Drawing on the expertise of leading Smith scholars from around the world, this Handbook, thr…
Adam Smith and Self-Interest
The concepts of self-interest and self-love feature prominently in both and . Various notions of self-preservation, self-interest, and self-love are distinguished, and it is shown how self-love functions less as a motive than as an orientation. Although self-love may corrupt moral perception, the impartial spectator serves as an antidote. Smith’s conception of self-interest in is a broad one and not inconsistent with the moral psychology of . Tha…
"Adam Smith's "Science of Human Nature
We do not find in Smith any programmatic statement about the nature of human nature only, rather, a profuse scattering of remarks. We can, however, be confident that he shared the aspirations of the "Enlightenment project," within which, indeed, self-awareness of a "conception of man" was focal. There was a convergence on the idea that human nature is constant and uniform in its operating principles. By virtue of this constancy human nature was p…
Science and superstition
This article argues that to call Hume a conservative is a shorthand label that is at least insecure and at most a distortion. It is not claimed that the label is fanciful or without justification but the argument does serve to raise questions as to its accuracy once it is subject to further inspection and, consequently, to doubt its aptness or utility in capturing what is a key characteristic of Hume’s sociopolitical thought. This argument is con…
The Manuscripts of Adam Ferguson
Aristotle, Hobbes and Chimpanzees
The article is an exercise in the philosophical anthropology of politics. According to Aristotle, man is a political animal but not uniquely so, whereas, according to Hobbes, politics is artificial and the preserve of humans alone. Both Aristotle and Hobbes draw upon contemporary science. The dominant relevant science today is neo-Darwinism – humans are products of evolution and genetically closely related to the other primates. The argument that…
Hume and the Customary Causes of Industry, Knowledge, and Humanity
Research Article| June 01 2006 Hume and the Customary Causes of Industry, Knowledge, and Humanity Christopher J. Berry Christopher J. Berry Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2006) 38 (2): 291–317. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2005-004 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher J. Berry; Hume and the Customary Causes of Ind…
Smith under Strain
Human nature and political conventions
That there is some connection between politics and human nature is a commonplace, but why and in what way they are conjoined is disputed. Aristotle's practice of comparing humans with other animals, and not conceptually divorcing them, is fruitful. By adopting a similar practice an indirect linkage (rather than Aristotle's direct one) between human nature and politics is identified. The strategy is to locate at least one universal aspect of human…
Social theory of the Scottish Enlightenment
Adam Smith and Self-Interest
The concepts of self-interest and self-love feature prominently in both and . Various notions of self-preservation, self-interest, and self-love are distinguished, and it is shown how self-love functions less as a motive than as an orientation. Although self-love may corrupt moral perception, the impartial spectator serves as an antidote. Smith’s conception of self-interest in is a broad one and not inconsistent with the moral psychology of . Tha…
Hume and the Customary Causes of Industry, Knowledge, and Humanity
Research Article| June 01 2006 Hume and the Customary Causes of Industry, Knowledge, and Humanity Christopher J. Berry Christopher J. Berry Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2006) 38 (2): 291–317. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2005-004 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher J. Berry; Hume and the Customary Causes of Ind…
The Manuscripts of Adam Ferguson
Smith under Strain
Adam Smith
In 1776, Adam Smith (1723-90) wrote The Wealth of Nations, the foundational book that led to him being called the 'father of economics'. However, Adam Smith was far more than an economist. Adam Smith is introduced through an overview of his writings and moral philosophy. Adam Smith: A Very Short Introduction offers a balanced and nuanced view of this seminal thinker, embedding his fierce defence of free trade, competition, and assault on special …
What does learning for all mean for DFID's global education work
"Adam Smith's "Science of Human Nature
We do not find in Smith any programmatic statement about the nature of human nature only, rather, a profuse scattering of remarks. We can, however, be confident that he shared the aspirations of the "Enlightenment project," within which, indeed, self-awareness of a "conception of man" was focal. There was a convergence on the idea that human nature is constant and uniform in its operating principles. By virtue of this constancy human nature was p…
Between tradition and revolution
Adam Smith's Considerations on Language
Aristotle, Hobbes and Chimpanzees
The article is an exercise in the philosophical anthropology of politics. According to Aristotle, man is a political animal but not uniquely so, whereas, according to Hobbes, politics is artificial and the preserve of humans alone. Both Aristotle and Hobbes draw upon contemporary science. The dominant relevant science today is neo-Darwinism – humans are products of evolution and genetically closely related to the other primates. The argument that…
The nature of wealth and the origins of virtue
(1986). The nature of wealth and the origins of virtue: Recent essays on the Scottish Enlightenment. History of European Ideas: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 85-99
Nations and Norms
Nationalism like all political doctrines is at root normative, that is, it makes a claim that matters ought to be arranged in a certain way. The root claim of nationalism is that a nation should be self-governing. This article is concerned with the normative basis of that claim: upon what understanding of value, principle, norm, etc., does it rest? The exercise is thus abstract; it is not a concrete investigation into the causes of nationalism, a…
Social Science and Democratic Theory
Adam Smith's Considerations on Language
From Hume to Hegel
A travers le rejet, chez Hume et Hegel, de l'explication et la justification par le contrat de l'allegeance politique, l'A. esquisse une interpretation des modifications de la conception de l'homme qui ont pris place entre ces deux penseurs
Idiotic Politics
The essay analyses, from the writings of Marx and, more particularly, from some contemporary thinkers, the assumptions behind the pejorative assessment of bourgeois Western society as alienated and privatized (idiotic) and in more detail, the remedial prescriptions of community and participation (polity). The assessments assume capitalism as the culprit and regard politics as ubiquitous. The key assumption in the prescriptions is that man is a co…
Kuhn and the History of Ideas
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Between science and religion
Between science and religion: The reaction to scientific naturalism in late Victorian England." History of European Ideas, 2(2), pp. 173–174
Hegel on the World-historical
(1981). Hegel on the World-historical. History of European Ideas: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 155-162
Nations and Norms
Nationalism like all political doctrines is at root normative, that is, it makes a claim that matters ought to be arranged in a certain way. The root claim of nationalism is that a nation should be self-governing. This article is concerned with the normative basis of that claim: upon what understanding of value, principle, norm, etc., does it rest? The exercise is thus abstract; it is not a concrete investigation into the causes of nationalism, a…
Hume, Hegel and Human Nature
Lectures on the Philosophy of World History
Hegel and modern society
Hume on Rationality in History and Social Life
Rubel on Karl Marx
(1983). Rubel on Karl Marx : Five essays. History of European Ideas: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 229-230
Hegel
The young Hegelians. An anthology
(1985). The young Hegelians. An anthology. History of European Ideas: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 222-223
Human Nature
Human Nature and Politics
The nature of wealth and the origins of virtue
(1986). The nature of wealth and the origins of virtue: Recent essays on the Scottish Enlightenment. History of European Ideas: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 85-99
Between tradition and revolution
Of Pigs and Men
The Idea of Luxury
In this far-ranging and innovative study Christopher Berry explores the meanings and ramifications of the idea of luxury. Insights from political theory, philosophy and intellectual history are utilised in a sophisticated conceptual analysis that is complemented by a series of specific historical investigations. Dr Berry suggests that the value attached to luxury is a crucial component in any society's self-understanding, and shows how luxury has…
Social theory of the Scottish Enlightenment
Human nature and political conventions
That there is some connection between politics and human nature is a commonplace, but why and in what way they are conjoined is disputed. Aristotle's practice of comparing humans with other animals, and not conceptually divorcing them, is fruitful. By adopting a similar practice an indirect linkage (rather than Aristotle's direct one) between human nature and politics is identified. The strategy is to locate at least one universal aspect of human…
Smith under Strain
The Manuscripts of Adam Ferguson
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