Forthcoming issue on John Witherspoon

Posted by Sandra Hynes on 2025-04-14

Currently in production is Volume 14, Issue 1 of the Journal of Scottish Thought which arose from the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society Annual Conference held in the University of St Andrews, 18-21 July 2023. The Conference commemorated 300 years of Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson and John Witherspoon and 250 years since Boswell and Johnson's tour of the Hebrides. The editor is Dr C.B. Bow.

The articles in this special issue on 'Witherspoon in His Transatlantic Contexts’ are:

C.B. Bow, ‘Introduction: Witherspoon in His Transatlantic Contexts’

Emma Macleod, ‘James Wodrow, John Witherspoon and the Negotiation of Moderatism in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland’

Euan Gorrie, A Failed Utopia: John Witherspoon's History of a Corporation of Servants’

Dafydd Daniel, ‘John Witherspoon’s Ethics and “Sir Issac Newton’s Bulldog”’

Gideon Mailer, ‘Thomas Jefferson, John Witherspoon, and the Declaration of Independence’

C.B. Bow, ‘Witherspoon and Beattie on the Philosophy of Common Sense Abolitionism’

Julia Pohlmann, ‘Christian Hebraism in John Witherspoon's Sermons’

Paul Helseth, ‘Re-Imagining “the Witherspoon Tradition”’