@article{dc927ed89cb240788d68ee677bb7d0d7,
title = "Editor's introduction: Nicholas Phillipson and the sciences of humankind in enlightenment Scotland",
author = "Thomas Ahnert",
note = "Funding Information: The papers in this special issue are connected in particular by the theme of a {\textquoteleft}Science of Man{\textquoteright}, which had been one of Phillipson's guiding interests in much of his research in the last two decades of his life. That theme is evident, for example, in his magisterial biography of Adam Smith, in which Phillipson presented Smith's philosophical project as an attempt to construct such a {\textquoteleft}Science of Man{\textquoteright}. It also came to shape his approach to the thought of David Hume, whose bold declaration in the Preface to the Treatise of Human Nature that {\textquoteleft}all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature{\textquoteright} was the starting point of a large research project from 2002 to 2006, which Phillipson directed together with the late Susan Manning, and which was funded by a grant from the Leverhulme Trust. ",
year = "2021",
month = aug,
day = "4",
doi = "10.1080/01916599.2021.1950309",
language = "English",
journal = "History of European Ideas",
issn = "0191-6599",
publisher = "Taylor & Francis",
}