Mary Shepherd
* 31.12.1777
† 07.01.1847
Mary Shepherd was a Scottish philosopher who was highly critical of the Scottish School of David Hume. Against the idea of a justified believe through empirical observation, she argued for a metaphysics of existential beliefs held for good reasons. Main works include the Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect and the Essay on the Academical or Skeptical Philosophy. Some of her main philosophical interests were in the origin of the belief in the continued existence of the mind and self, as well as in external objects, inferred from causal arguments. Her wide ranging social circle included personalities such as Mary Somerville, Charles Lyell, Thomas Malthus, Charles Babbage, and David Ricardo.
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Primary Sources
Shepherd, Mary (1824): An Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect. controverting the Doctrine of Mr. Hume, concerning the Nature of the Relation; with Observations upon the Opinions of Dr. Brown and Mr. Lawrence, connected with the same subject. London: T. Hookam. Online verfügbar unter https://archive.org/details/essayuponrelatio00shepiala/page/n7/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater.
Shepherd, Mary (1827): Essays on the Perception of an External Universe and other Subjects Connected with the Doctrine of Causation. London: John Hatchard and Son. Online verfügbar unter https://archive.org/details/essaysonpercepti00shep/page/n7/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater.
Shepherd, Mary (2018): Lady Mary Shepherd. Selected writings. Hg. v. Deborah Boyle. Exeter: Imprint Academic (Library of Scottish philosophy).
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Secondary Sources
Allen, Keith; Stoneham, Tom (Hg.) (2011): Causation and modern philosophy. New York: Routledge (Routledge Advances in the History of Philosophy Ser, 3). Online verfügbar unter http://site.ebrary.com/lib/alltitles/docDetail.action?docID=10452431.
Boyle, Deborah (2018): Lady Mary Shepherd. Selected Writings. 2nd ed. Luton, Bedfordshire: Imprint Academic (Library of Scottish Philosophy Ser, v.17). Online verfügbar unter https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=5647591.
Gerrard, Christine (Hg.) (2006): A companion to eighteenth-century poetry. Wiley InterScience (Online service). 1. publ. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell (Blackwell companions to literature and culture, 44). Online verfügbar unter http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470996638.
Heath, Diane; Klafter, Einat; Blud, Victoria (Hg.) (2019): Gender in medieval places, spaces and thresholds. London: Institute of Historical Research (IHR conference series). Online verfügbar unter https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv9b2tw8.
Kerrigan, Catherine (2022): An Anthology of Scottish Women Poets. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Online verfügbar unter https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474469791.
Lagerlund, Henrik (2020): Skepticism in Philosophy. A Comprehensive, Historical Introduction. Milton: Taylor & Francis Group. Online verfügbar unter https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=6187433.
LoLordo, Antonia (Hg.) (2020): Mary Shepherd’s Essays on the perception of an external universe (Oxford new histories of philosophy).
LoLordo, Antonia; Shepherd, Mary (Hg.) (2020): Mary Shepherd’s essays on the perception of an external universe. New York, NY: Oxford University Press (Oxford new histories of philosophy).
LoLordo, Antonia; Shepherd, Mary (Hg.) (2020): Mary Shepherd’s essays on the perception of an external universe. New York, NY: Oxford University Press (Oxford new histories of philosophy).
O’Neill, Eileen; Lascano, Marcy P. (Hg.) (2019): Feminist History of Philosophy: The Recovery and Evaluation of Women’s Philosophical Thought. 1st ed. 2019. Cham: Springer (Springer eBooks Religion and Philosophy). - Online Sources
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