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Nicholas
Phillipson, MA PhD FRHistS
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Honorary
Fellow, History |
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| Contact |
nicholas.phillipson@ed.ac.uk
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| Outline Biography |
Nicholas
Phillipson was an undergraduate at Aberdeen and Cambridge Universities
and graduated with a PhD from Cambridge in 1967. He was appointed
Lecturer in History at Edinburgh in 1965 and was subsequently appointed
Senior Lecturer and Reader. He retired from full-time employment
in 2004 and was appointed Honorary Research Fellow. He has held
visiting appointments at Princeton, Yale, Tulsa , the Folger Library
, Washington DC and the Ludwigs-Maximilian Universitat, Munich .
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| Research Interests |
His
research interests have focussed on the cultural and intellectual
history of early modern and modern Scotland with a particular interest
in the history of the Scottish enlightenment. He has secondary interests
in the history of early-modern British and French political thought.
He is co-director - with Susan Manning of a three-year Leverhulme-funded
project on the Science of Man in Scotland . He was an associate
editor of the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He is
a founder editor - with Anthony LaVopa and Charles Capper - of a
new journal Modern Intellectual History, published by the Cambridge
University Press. He is a past president of the Eighteenth Century
Scottish Studies Society. He has lectured extensively in the America
and on Europe . He has supervised and examined around 50 research
students in this country and overseas in his various fields of interest.
He is at present completing an intellectual biography of Adam Smith
- to be published by Penguin-Viking - and is co-editing and contributing
to a volume on the Science of Man in Scotland .
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| Recent Publications |
(with Robert Anderson and Michael Lynch), The University of
Edinburgh : An Illustrated History, 2003
'Language,
sociability and history: some reflections on the foundations of
Adam Smith's Science of Man' in Economy, Polity and Society:
British Intellectual History 1750-1950 . Ed. S. Collini, Ri.
Whatmore and B. Young, 2000
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| Keywords |
Chronology:
Early Modern.
Geography:
British Isles , Scotland , Europe .
Themes: Cultural and Social Behaviour, National/cultural Identity,
Politics and Policy, Religion and belief, Education, Intellectual
Ideas/philosophy, Language/linguistics
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