| FT-51481-03 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | James R. Otteson | Protagoras Resurrected: Moral Theory in the Scottish Enlightenment | 6/1/2003 - 7/31/2003 | $5,000.00 | James | R. | Otteson | | | | University of Alabama | Tuscaloosa | AL | 35487-0001 | USA | 2003 | History of Philosophy | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
I plan to use the stipend to fund work on my book, Protagoras Resurrected: Moral Theory in the Scottish Enlightenment. In my book Adam Smith’s Marketplace of Life (Cambridge University Press, 2002), I argue that Smith develops a market-style model for understanding the creation, growth, and maintenance of large-scale human social institutions. Others working in the same veins include notably David Hume, Adam Ferguson, John Millar, and Dugald Stewart. In Protagoras Resurrected I propose to look at the work of these figures to see exactly what their explanations for social institutions were, in what ways they used market-style explanations, and what exactly these models were intended to explain. |