The ethnological foundation of the Scottish Enlightenment
Join award winning historian and author Tommy J. Curry on 11th January as he demonstrates how the ideas of Dugald Stewart and David Hume provided the basis of the ethnological sciences!
About The ethnological foundation of the Scottish Enlightenment
This will be a hybrid event hosted by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland which will take place both in Augustine United Church and online.
This event is free and open to everyone.
The philosophical debates during the Enlightenment concerning the origin and purpose of racial difference provided the rationale for formalizing the study of racial groups in the United Kingdom in the early 1800s.
Influenced by the burgeoning field of physiognomy, white thinkers throughout Scotland and England embraced the idea that skin colour was evidence of deeper physiological and evolutionary traits in the body.
Join us as award winning historian and author Tommy J. Curry, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, demonstrates how the ideas of Dugald Stewart and David Hume provided the basis of the ethnological sciences.
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