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See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
BROWN, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1778-1820) , Scottish philosopher, was See also:born at Kirkmabreck, See also:Kirkcudbright, where his See also:father was See also:parish clergyman. He was a boy of a refined nature, a wide reader and an eager student. Educated at several See also:schools in See also:London, he went to See also:Edinburgh University in 1792, where he attended Dugald See also:- STEWART, ALEXANDER TURNEY (1803-1876)
- STEWART, BALFOUR (1828-1887)
- STEWART, CHARLES (1778–1869)
- STEWART, DUGALD (1753-1828)
- STEWART, J
- STEWART, JOHN (1749—1822)
- STEWART, JULIUS L
- STEWART, SIR DONALD MARTIN (1824–19o0)
- STEWART, SIR HERBERT (1843—1885)
- STEWART, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1540—c. 1605)
- STEWART, STUART
- STEWART, WILLIAM (c. 1480-c. 1550)
Stewart's moral See also:philosophy class. His attendance was desultory, and he does not appear to have completed his arts course. After studying See also:law for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he took up See also:medicine; his See also:graduation thesis De Somno was well received. But his See also:great strength See also:lay in metaphysical See also:analysis, as was shown in his See also:answer to the objections raised against the See also:appointment of See also:Sir See also:John See also:Leslie to the mathematical professorship (18o5). Leslie, a follower of See also:Hume, was attacked by the clerical party as a sceptic and an infidel, and Brown took the opportunity to defend Hume's See also:doctrine of causality as in no way inimical to See also:religion. His See also:defence, at first only a pamphlet, became in its third edition a lengthy See also:treatise entitled Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect, and is a See also:fine specimen of Brown's See also:analytical See also:faculty. In 18o6 he became a medical practitioner in partner-See also:ship with See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:- GREGORY
- GREGORY (Gregorius)
- GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
- GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
- GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
- GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
- GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)
Gregory, but, though successful in his profession, preferred literature and philosophy. After twice failing in the See also:attempt to gain a professorship in the university, he was invited, during an illness of Dugald Stewart in the session of 1808-1809, to See also:act as his substitute, and during the following session he undertook a great See also:part of Stewart's See also:work. The students received him with See also:enthusiasm, due partly to his splendid See also:rhetoric and partly to the novelty and ingenuity of his views. In 1810 he was appointed as colleague to Stewart, a position which he held for the See also:rest of his See also:life. He wrote his lectures at high pressure, and devoted much time to the editing and publication of the numerous poems which he had written at various times during his life. He was also engaged in preparing an abstract of his lectures as a handbook for his class. His See also:health, never strong, gave way under the See also:strain of his work. He was advised to take a voyage to London, where he died on the 2nd of See also:April 182o.
His friend and biographer, See also:David Welsh (1793-1845), super-intended the publication of his See also:text-See also:book, the See also:Physiology of the Human Mind, and his Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind was published by his successors, John Stewart and the Rev. E. Milroy. The latter was received with great enthusiasm both in See also:England (where it reached its 19th edition) and in See also:America; but See also:recent See also:criticism has lessened its popularity and it is now almost forgotten.
Brown's philosophy occupies an intermediate See also:place between the earlier Scottish school and the later analytical or associational See also:psychology. To the latter Brown really belonged, but he had preserved certain doctrines of the older school which were out of See also:harmony with his fundamental view. He still retained a small quantum of intuitive beliefs, and did not appear to see that the very existence of these could not be explained by his theory of See also:mental See also:action. This intermediate or wavering position accounts for the See also:comparative neglect into which his See also:works have now fallen. They did much to excite thinking, and advanced many problems by more than one step, but they did not furnish a coherent See also:system, and the doctrines which were then new have since been worked out with greater consistency and clearness.
Brown wrote a criticism of See also:Darwin's Zoonomia (1798), and was one of the first contributors to the Edinburgh See also:Review, in the second number of which he published a criticism of the Kantian philosophy, based entirely on Villers's See also:French See also:account of it. Among his poems, which are modelled on See also:Pope and See also:Akenside and rather See also:commonplace, may be mentioned: See also:Paradise of Coquettes (1814); Wanderer in See also:Norway (1815) ; Warfiend (1816) ; See also:Bower of See also:Spring (1817); See also:Agnes (1818); Emily (1819); a collected edition in 4 vols. appeared in 1820.
For a severe criticism of Brown's philosophy, see Sir W. See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton's Discussions and Lectures on See also:Metaphysics; and for a high estimate of his merits, see J. S. See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
Mill's Examination of Hamilton. Sec also D. Welsh's Account of the Life and Writings, &c. (1825); M'Cosh's Scottish Philosophy, pp. 317-337. The only See also:German writer who seems to have known anything of Brown is See also:Beneke, who found in him anticipations of some of his own doctrines. .See See also:Die neue Psychologie, pp. 320-330.
End of Article: BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
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