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BA, PGDHS, MA, PhD, FHEA, FRHistS, OSS 大将軍
Senior Lecturer
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- Email Address
- bradford.bow@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History
Biography
Dr Bradford Bow is an intellectual historian of America, Scotland and Britain during the long eighteenth century, with a broader interest in the global contexts of Enlightenment intellectual and moral culture. Dr Bow completed a PhD in the fields of Enlightenment History and Scottish Diaspora Studies at the University of Edinburgh in 2012. During the 2012-13 academic year, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) and an adjunct lecturing position at Edinburgh University. At that time, he also served as the Acting Director of the MSc Intellectual History programme and organised research activities for the Carnegie Trust funded project ‘Scotland’s Trans-Atlantic Relations’ (STAR). Following this, he held the inaugural Jack Miller Center-Huntington Research Fellowship at the Huntington Library. Dr Bow returned to the University of Edinburgh during the 2013-14 academic year as a Teaching Fellow in Enlightenment History and Deputy Director of the MSc Intellectual History programme. Afterwards, he was an Assistant Professor of Global Intellectual History at Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea) between 2014 and 2019. Dr Bow joined the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy in August 2019. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and Distinguished Shinhan Professor at Yonsei University.
Dugald Stewart's Empire of the Mind: Moral Education in the late Scottish Enlightenment (OUP, 2022).
Dugald Stewart's Empire of the Mind recasts the cultivation of a democratic intellect in the late Scottish Enlightenment. It comprises an intellectual history of what was at stake in moral education during a transitional period of revolutionary change between 1772 and 1828. The democratization of Stewart's didactic Enlightenment—the instruction of moral improvement—in a globalizing, interconnected nineteenth-century knowledge economy is examined in this book.
- Research
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Research Overview
My research interests centre on the global intellectual history of Scottish Enlightenment philosophy during the long eighteenth century (1660-1840). From a transnational and global perspective, I address questions concerning the conception, diffusion, and reception of the Scottish philosophical tradition of teaching metaphysics as moral philosophy, applied ethics, and political economy.
Current Research
The two strands of my current research centre on two large-scale book projects that examine the global intellectual history of the Scottish Enlightenment in the British imperial world and the intellectual history of Aberdonian common sense.
My book project on the eastern frontiers of the Scottish Enlightenment during its supposed decline in the British Isles is a comparative study of Scottish empiricism amongst British philosophical and literary societies at Madras, Calcutta and Bombay from c.1784 to 1833. It aims to shed new light on the role of Scottish Enlightenment naturalism within an interconnected British imperial world.
My book manuscript, The Wise Club: The Aberdeen Philosophical Society in the Scottish Enlightenment, explores different versions of ‘common sense’ that the Wise Club, which included Thomas Reid (1710-96), George Campbell (1719-96), John Gregory (1724-73), Alexander Gerard (1728-95), and James Beattie (1735-1803), set forth in their unpublished philosophical discourses and debates at taverns in Aberdeen between 1758 and 1773.
Past Research
My monograph, Dugald Stewart's Empire of the Mind, published by Oxford University Press in August 2022 sets forth a new understanding of the late Scottish Enlightenment in its transatlantic contexts. It comprises an intellectual history of what was at stake in moral education during a transitional period of revolutionary change in Scottish intellectual culture and within a globalising knowledge economy between 1772 and 1828. Seminal works in this field identify continuity of thought in the ‘spirit’ of a distinctive Scottish School of philosophy and a cross-generational ‘democratic intellect’ that took shape through the Scottish philosophical tradition in higher education. However, the legacy of Scottish philosophy in nineteenth-century education is largely misunderstood due to the scholarly marginalisation of Stewart’s educational doctrine. My book argues that Stewart’s novel and historically significant systematic approach to lifelong education democratised the Scottish Enlightenment pattern of philosophical thinking in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world and reformed the moral economy of the British imperial world.
Building on a very well-received podcast series that I coordinated, my co-edited volume with Michael Brown, 525 Years in the Pursuit of Truth: A New History of the University of Aberdeen, which is in production with Aberdeen University Press, explores the University’s transnational transmission of ideas since the foundation of King’s. And my edited volume, Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment, published by Oxford University Press in 2018 established a new understanding of the most influential philosophical system in the Scottish Enlightenment.
Supervision
Supervisees
- MR JORDAN PROTHRO
- MR MICHAEL TAYLOR
- MR WILLIAM GEORGE
- MR PAUL HAUSER
- MR EUAN GORRIE
- DR BRITTANY THOMPSON
- MS HELEN HOPWOOD
- Teaching
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Programmes
- Postgraduate, 3 year, January start
- Postgraduate, 1 , September start
- Postgraduate, 3 stage, September start
- Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
Courses
- The Enlightenment in Global History (HI407D)
Teaching Responsibilities
Areas of PG Supervision
I welcome approaches from prospective postgraduate students with an interest in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scottish, British, American, Atlantic, Global, and Enlightenment History.
- Publications
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Review of Antti Lepistö's The Rise of Common-Sense Conservatism: The American Right and the Reinvention of the Scottish Enlightenment
American Historical Review, vol. 129, no. 2, pp. 744-745Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae027
Review of Antti Lepistö, The Rise of Common-Sense Conservatism: The American Right and the Reinvention of the Scottish Enlightenment (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
American Historical Review, vol. 129, no. 2, pp. 744–745Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae027
A Commonwealth Union for Anglo-Atlantic Empire: Sir William Keith on the Political Economy of Publick Spirit
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth HistoryContributions to Journals: ArticlesReview of Craig Beveridge, Recovering Scottish History: John Hill Burton and Scottish National Identity in the Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022)
Scottish Historical Review, vol. 103, no. 1, pp. 200-201Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2024.0663
Becoming White in the American Enlightenment
Journal of Scottish PhilosophyContributions to Journals: ArticlesReview of Paul Wood, Thomas Reid and the University (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
Journal of Scottish PhilosophyContributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesThe Scottish Enlightenment
Nineteenth Century Literature CriticismContributions to Specialist Publications: ArticlesReview of Onur Ulas Ince, Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Intellectual History Review, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 514-516Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2023.2218052
Dugald Stewart's Empire of the Mind: Moral Education in the late Scottish Enlightenment
Oxford University Press (OUP). 254 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] Book
525 Years in the Pursuit of Truth Podcast: 525 Years of Collecting and Care: The libraries, archives and museums of the University of Aberdeen
Non-textual Forms: Digital or Visual Products525 Years in the Pursuit of Truth Podcast: Lord Strathcona, Canada, and the University of Aberdeen, 1820-1906
Non-textual Forms: Digital or Visual Products525 Years in the Pursuit of Truth Podcast: Economics at Aberdeen: The Legacy of Sir Thomas Jaffrey, Bt (1861-1953)
Non-textual Forms: Digital or Visual Products525 Years in the Pursuit of Truth Podcast: The Influence of Prof. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 1866-1960
Non-textual Forms: Digital or Visual Products525 Years in the Pursuit of Truth Podcast: James Ramsay (1733-1789): Scottish Abolitionism in the Anglo-Atlantic World
Non-textual Forms: Digital or Visual Products525 Years in the Pursuit of Truth Podcast: James Beattie (1735-1803): Philosopher and Poet
Non-textual Forms: Digital or Visual Products525 Years in the Pursuit of Truth Podcast: Thomas Reid (1710-1796): The Wise Club in the Aberdeen Enlightenment
Non-textual Forms: Digital or Visual Products525 Years in the Pursuit of Truth Podcast: Duncan Liddel (1561-1613): Medicine and Mathematics during Northern Europe's Age of Confessionalisation
Non-textual Forms: Digital or Visual Products525 Years in the Pursuit of Truth Podcast: The Local Rise and International Role of Marischal College, 1593-1860
Non-textual Forms: Digital or Visual ProductsPodcast:: Before and after Bishop Elphinstone: Creativity and learning in medieval and renaissance Aberdeen
Non-textual Forms: Digital or Visual ProductsReview of Berry, Essays on Hume, Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment
Scottish Historical Review, vol. 99, no. 1, pp. 151-152Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2020.0445
Molyneux's Problem in the Scottish Enlightenment
Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 22-41Contributions to Journals: ArticlesQuestioning the historical and modern limits of Adam Ferguson's "ethical integrity": Response
SyndicateContributions to Journals: ArticlesCommon Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment
Oxford University Press (OUP), Oxford. 226 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198783909.001.0001
The “Final Causes” of Scottish Nationalism: Lord Kames on the political economy of enlightened husbandry, 1745-1782
Historical Research, vol. 91, no. 252, pp. 296-313Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12225
Dugald Stewart and the Legacy of Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment
Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment. Bow, C. B. (ed.). Oxford University Press (OUP), pp. 200-220, 21 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersIntroduction: Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment
Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment. Bow, C. B. (ed.). Oxford University Press (OUP), pp. 1-18, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersWaging War for the Righteous: William Eaton on Enlightenment, Empire, and Coup d’état in the First Barbary War, 1801-1805
History, vol. 101, no. 348, pp. 692-709Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12324
In Pursuit of “Moral Beauty” and Intellectual Pleasures: Dugald Stewart and Edinburgh’s literary culture, 1772-1810
The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture. McLean, R., Young, R., Simpson, K. (eds.). Bucknell University Press, pp. 153-170, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersReview of Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries edited by Gordon Graham
Journal of Scottish Philosophy, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 224-229Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/jsp.2016.0138
“Jacobins” at Princeton: Student riots, religious revivalism, and the decline of Enlightenment, 1800–1817
Modern Intellectual History, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 93-122Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244315000128
Review of Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Asian Review of World Histories, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 265-275Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.12773/arwh.2015.3.2.265
William Tilghman
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment. Spencer, M. (ed.). ContinuumChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersMoral education at the end of the Scottish Enlightenment
Eighteenth-Century Scotland, vol. 29Contributions to Journals: ArticlesReview of Iain McDaniel's Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe's Future
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquires in the Early Modern Era, vol. 21Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesReview of Eric Schlereth's An Age of Infidels: The Politics of Religious Controversy in the Early United States
Intellectual History Review, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 564-566Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2014.929290
In Defence of the Scottish Enlightenment: Dugald Stewart’s role in the 1805 John Leslie Affair
Scottish Historical Review, vol. 92, no. 1, pp. 123-146Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2013.0140
Introduction: Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
History of European Ideas, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 605-612Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2012.735133
Reforming Witherspoon’s Legacy at Princeton: John Witherspoon, Samuel Stanhope Smith and James McCosh on didactic Enlightenment
History of European Ideas, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 650-669Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2012.735138
The Science of Applied Ethics at Edinburgh University: Dugald Stewart on moral education and the “auxiliary principles of the moral faculty”
Intellectual History Review, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 207-224Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2012.725554
Samuel Stanhope Smith and Common Sense Philosophy at Princeton
Journal of Scottish Philosophy, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 189-209Contributions to Journals: Articles