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The Scottish Enlightenment

2011· book· en· W2657214358 on OpenAlexaff
Neil McArthur

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2011
Typebook
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicScottish History and National Identity
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Manitoba
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEnlightenmentScottish EnlightenmentSkepticismPoliticsPolitical philosophyConservatismEconomic JusticeHistory of political thoughtHistoryClassicsLawPhilosophyPolitical scienceTheology

Abstract

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Scotland made a significant contribution to the intellectual and artistic life of Enlightenment Europe despite having a small population. In philosophy, the Scottish Enlightenment can be seen as beginning in 1725 with the publication of a series of treatises by Francis Hutcheson. David Hume published the first volumes of his <italic>Treatise of Human Nature</italic> in 1739, Adam Ferguson's <italic>Essay on the History of Civil Society</italic> appeared in 1769 while Adam Smith's <italic>Theory of Moral Sentiments</italic> and <italic>Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations</italic> in 1759 and 1776, respectively. These extraordinary masterpieces are only the most enduring testaments to the vitality of an intellectual community whose members were deeply engaged with the politics of the time, and the problems of political philosophy were of central concern to them. This article discusses the Scottish Enlightenment, focusing on justice, allegiance, and the moral sentiments; liberty, equality, and forms of government; the development of political economy; skepticism, conservatism, and reform; and philosophical history.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.728
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.181
Teacher spread0.145 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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