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Freedom, Markets, and Equality in Eighteenth Century Philosophy
<p>This dissertation examines how eighteenth century thinkers Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Adam Smith, and Immanuel Kant defended the value of free markets. It reconstructs their defense of liberal economic reforms, including free trade (domestic and foreign) and the deregulation of markets in labor …
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"Airy Children of Our Brain": Emotion, Science and the Legacy of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy in the Shelley Circle, 1812-1821
… historicism’, my thesis explores the legacy of eighteenth-century mental philosophy and science in the Shelley circle, 1812-1821. I argue that the Shelley circle’s scientific understanding of the mind and emotion is influenced by the materialism, empiricism, and aesthetics prevalent in the …