John Witherspoon's Manuscipt Collections:
Newark, N.J. New Jersey Historical Society. Witherspoon Papers.
New York. New York City Public Library. Letters, Emmet Collection.
Philadelphia. Presbyterian Historical Society. Witherspoon Papers.
Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Library. Witherspoon Papers.
Washington, D.C. Library of Congress. papers of John Witherspoon.
Primary Sources on John Witherspoon:
Butterfield, Lyman H., ed. John Witherspoon Comes to America: A Documentary Account Based Largely on New Marterials. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953.
Green, Ashbel. The Life of Rev'd John witherspoon, D.D., LL.D., With a Brief Review of His Writing; and a summary Estimate of His Character and Talents. MS, in the New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, N.J.
Rodgers, John. The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon. 4 vols. Philadelphia: William W. Woodward, 1800-1801.
Witherspoon, John, Lectures on Moral Philosophy: An Annotated Edition of Lectures on Moral Philosophy: Newark: University of Delaware Press; London : Associated University Presses, c1982. FSU BJ1005 .W5 1982
____________. The Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon. Philadelphia, 1803.
Thomas Reid's Work
An Inquiry into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense. First edition, Edinburgh 1764. Edited by Timothy Duggan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. FSU B 1533 .I2 1970.
Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays. Edited by Keith Lehrer and Ronald E. Beanblossom, with introduction by Ronald E. Beanblossom. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975. FSU B 1532 A3 L43.
Philosophical Orations of Thomas Reid. First edition, Edinburgh 1774. Edited by with an introduction by D.D. Todd. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989. FSU B 1532 A5 1989.
Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man. First edition, Edinburgh 1785. Edited by Baruch Brody. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1969. FSU B 1533 .A2 1790.
Essays on the Active Powers of Man. First edition, Edinburgh 1788. Edited by Baruch Brody. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1969. FSU Micro-material Mip 51, 2nd series, no.45487.
Secondary Sources:
Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of The American People. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972. FSU BL 267 .B8. In the first two chapters, Ahlstrom evaluates the utility of Common Sense philosophy for Presbyterian ministers.
Bailyn, Bernard, Education in the Forming of American Society: Needs and Opportunities for Study. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1960.
_______________, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1967.
Barker, Stephen, F. and Tom L. Beauchamp. Thomas Reid: Critical Interpretations. Philadelphia: University City Science Center, 1976. FSU B 1537 T48. Barker and Beauchamp compiled sixteen essays on Thomas Reid. The first essay by Keith Lehrer focuses specifically on Reid's influence on contemporary American philosophy. The bibliography compiled by Nina Mikhalevsky includes an exhaustive list of Reid's writings, including books, articles and doctoral dissertations written about him.
Black, George Fraser, Scotland's Mark on America. New York, 1921.
Bower, Alexander, The History of the University of Edinburgh, 3 vols. (Edinburgh 1817)
Bozeman, Theodore Dwight. Protestants in an Age of Science: The Baconian Ideal and Antebellum American Religious Thought. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1977. FSU BL 245 .B7. This source examines the relationship between Science and religion in early American thought. The first chapter, "The Source and Rise of Baconianism in America," is extremely valuable for understanding the appeal of Common Sense philosophy in America.
Bridenbaugh, Carl. Mitre and Sceptre: Transatlantic Faiths, Ideas, Personalities, and Politics, 1689-1775. New York: Oxford university Press, 1962.
Broadie, Alexander. The Tradition of Scottish Philosophy: A New Perspective on the Enlightenment. Edinburgh: Polygon Press, 1990. FSU B 1401 .B86 1990. Broadie traces the history of Scottish philosophy from the late Middle Ages to the emergence of Common Sense Realism in the eighteenth century.
Brock, William Ranulf, Scotus Americanus: A Survey of the Sources for Links between Scotland and America in the Eighteenth Century. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c1982. FSU E183.8.S37 B76 1982
Bryson, Gladys. Man and Society: Scottish Inquiry of the 18th Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945. FSU 192 B916m. Bryson takes a critical look at the intellectual questions that stimulated the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment. These questions are represented by chapter headings: "Man's Place in Nature", "Man's Past", "Human Nature" and "Social Institutions".
Buckle, Henry Thomas. On Scotland and the Scotch Intellect. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. FSU DA 760. B92. Buckle uses a contextualist approach to evaluate the conditions in Scotland between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. By using this methodology he provides a new and innovative perspective on the origins of Common Sense Realism.
Burleigh, J. H. S., A Church History of Scotland. London: Oxford University Press, 1960.
Burritt, Bailey B. “Professional Distribution of College and University Graduates,” United States Bureau of Education, Bulletin 19 (1912)
Campbell, R. H., and Andrew S. Skinner ed., The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1982. FSU DA812 O74 1982
Cant, Ronald G., “The Origins of the Enlightenment in Scotland: The Universities,” The Origin and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment, Edinburgh: Edinburgh Press, 1982. 42-64.
Cassara, Ernest, The Enlightenment in Ameria. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1975. FSU E162 C34
Collins, Varnum Lansing. President Witherspoon. New York: Arno Press, 1969. FSU E302.6.W7 C7 1969. Collins provides a thorough examination of John Witherspoon's tenure as president of Princeton.
Curti, Merle. The Growth of American Thought. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1995. FSU 917.3 C978g. In Chapter ten, Curti discusses the reasons why Common Sense realism was so attractive to the early intellectual community of America.
Davie G.E. The Democratic Intellect. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1961. FSU 378 .41 D254 d. The Democratic Intellect is divided into four parts. The first part examines the politics and hierarchy within Scottish universities. Part four evaluates the social role of Common Sense philosophers within the community.
_____________, The Social Significance of the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense. (Dundee, 1973)
Davis, Richard Beale, Intellectual Life in Jefferson's Virginia, 1790-1830: Chapel Hill, 1964 (p.48 and 257)
Drummond, Andrew L., “Witherspoon of Gifford and American Presbyterianism,” Records of the Scottish Church History Society 12 (1958): 185-201.
Edwards, Owen Dudley and George Shepperson eds., Scotland, Europe and the American Revolution. (New York, 1976)
Egbert, Donald Drew. Princeton Portraits. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947. FSU N 7593 E. 36. This source examines the contributions of eighteen Princeton graduates. Chapter six concentrates on John Witherspoon and chapter ten focuses on James McCosh.
Emerson, Roger L., “Scottish Universities in the Eighteenth Century, 1690-1800.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. 167 (1977):453-74. FSU PQ2105.A2 S8
Finley, John H. The Coming of the Scot. London and New York, 1940.
Foote, W. H. Sketches of Virginia, I (1850)
Foxe, Auther. The Common Sense from Heraclitus to Peirce. New York: Turnbridge Press, 1962. FSU 152 F795 c. Foxe traces the history of Common Sense philosophy. He begins with the Greeks and concludes with nineteenth century philosophy. For some strange reason, Peirce is never mentioned in this reference.
Gay, Peter, “The Enlightenment.” In The Comparative Approach to American History, 34-46. Edited by C. Van Woodward. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1968.
Gough, John, The Social Contract: A Critical Study of its Development. (1957)
Graham, Henry Grey, Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Garland, 1983. FSU PR8547 G7 1983
Graham, Ian Charles Cargill. Colonists from Scotland: Emigrants to North America, 1707-1783. Ithaca, New York, 1956.
_________, The Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century. 1st illustrated ed., with eight plates: London, A. & C. Black, 1937. FSU DA812 .G7 1937
Grave, S. A. The Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960. FSU 192 G775s. Grave provides a detailed evaluation of the Thomas Reid's Common Sense methodology.
Hamowy, Ronald, The Scottish Enlightenment and the theory of Spontaneous Order. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, c1987. FSU H53.G7 H35 1987
Hatch, Nathan O. and Mark A. Noll ed. The Bible in America: Essays in Cultural History. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. FSU BS 540. B4453 1982. Chapter four evaluates the relationship between Scottish Common Sense realism and the study of the Bible.
Hoeveler, J. David. James McCosh and the Scottish Intellectual Tradition: from Glascow to Princeton. Princeton University Press, 1981. FSU LD 4605 1868 .H63. This book is a biographical study of James McCosh.
Hoffer, Peter Charles, An American Enlightenment: Selected Articles on Colonial Intellectual History. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1988. FSU E162 A514 1988
Hofstadter, Richard. Academic Freedom in the Age of the College. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955.
______________Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. New York: Random House, 1963. FSU E169.1 .H74.
Holifield, E. Brooks. The Gentlemen Theologians: American Theology in Southern Culture 1795-1860. Durham: Duke University Press, 1978. FSU BR 535 H6 1978. Holifield researches the methods and teachings of southern ministers in the antebellum period.
Hook, Andrew D., Scotland and America: A Study of Cultural Relations, 1750-1835. (Glasgow, 1975)
Hope, V. Philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1984. FSU 1402 E55 P46 1984. This book is a collection of fourteen essays on Scottish philosophy, of which only five deal directly with Common Sense Realism. A strength of this source is the extensive bibliography compiled by Hope.
Horn D.B., Short History of the University of Edinburgh, 1556-1889. (Edinburgh, 1967)
Hovenkamp, Herbert. Science and Religion in America 1800-1860. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978. FSU Bl 245 .H66. The first two chapters are important for explaining the role of Common Sense philosophy in the defense of Biblical scripture.
Howe, Daniel Walker., The Unitarian conscience : Harvard moral philosophy, 1805-1861. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1988. FSU BX9833.4 .H69 1988
Johnston, G.A. Selections from the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 1915. FSU B 1401 J7. Even though this source is eighty years old, it provides a useful analysis of the theories of Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, James Beattie and Dugald Stewart. Johnston's style of writing is clear, and for this reason the book is easy to penetrate.
Jones, Peter, Philosophy and Science in the Scottish Enlightenment. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1988. FSU DA812 P541 1988
____________, The `Science of Man' in the Scottish Enlightenment: Hume, Reid and their Contemporaries. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1989. FSU B1401 .S34 1989
Kraus, Michael. The Atlantic Civilization: Eighteenth Century Origins. Ithica: Cornell University Press, 1949.
Lehmann, William Christian, Scottish and Scotch-Irish contributions to early American life and culture. 2d ed. Washington, D.C.: Lehmann-Spohr, 1980, c1978. FSU AJV8467
Lehrer, Keith. Thomas Reid. London and New York: Routledge Press, 1989. FSU B 1537 L44 1989. Thomas Reid by Keith Lehrer provides an in-depth study of the father of Common Sense philosophy. An additional strength of this book is its extensive and fairly up to date bibliography.
Lovejoy, Arthur O. The Great Chain of Being: A study of the History of an Idea. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936.
___________, Reflections on Human Nature. (1961) pp.37-66.
McAllister, James L., “John Witherspoon: Academic Advocate for American Freedom,” in A Miscellany of American Christianity. ed,. by Stuart C. Henry (1963) 183-224.
Maclean, John. History of the College of New Jersey (1746-1854). New York: Arno Press, 1969. FSU LD 4608 .M16 1969. Maclean provides a valuable history of the early years of Princeton University. The first chapter is especially useful for analyzing the relationship between communities and universities.
Marcil-Lacoste, Louise, Claude Buffier and Thomas Reid, Two Common Sense Philosophers: Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, c1982. FSU B1959.B74 M37 1982
Mathieson, William Law, The Awakening of Scotland: A History from 1747 to 1797. (Glasgow, 1912)
Martin, Terence. Instructed Vision: Scottish Common Sense Philosophy and the Origins of American Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1961. FSU AS36 .1385 no. 48.
McCosh, James. The Scottish Philosophy, Biographical, Expository, Critical, from Hutcheson to Hamilton. New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1875. Written by the second Scottish president of Princeton, this book examines the contributions of several of the important thinkers of the Common Sense tradition.
Meyer, D.H., The Instructed Conscience. (Philadelphia, 1972)
Millar, John H., Literary History of Scotland. London: T. F. Unwin, 1903. FSU 820.9 Millar Subbasement
______________, Scottish Prose of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Being a course of lectures delivered in the University of Glasgow in 1912. Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1912. FSU PR8599 .M5 Subbasement
Miller, Howard, The Revolutionary College : American Presbyterian Higher Education, 1707-1837. New York: New York University Press, 1976. FSU LC580 .M48
Miller, Perry. The Life of the Mind in America. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1965. FSU E169.1 .M6273. This source is useful for providing a general over view of American thought.
______________. American Thought: Civil War to World War I. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1954. FSU 824 .08 M649a. The introduction is valuable for its over-view coverage of Common Sense philosophy in America.
Nichols, James Hastings, “John Witherspoon on Church and State,” in Calvinism and the political Order. ed,. by George Hunt (1965)
Nolan, Bennett, Benjamin Franklin in Scotland and Ireland, 1759-1771. (Philadelphia, 1938)
Norris, Edwin Mark. The Story of Princeton. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1917. FSU 378 .749 P957. This source is a history of Princeton from its origin to Woodrow Wilson's tenure as president of the university.
Orel, Harold, The Scottish World: History and Culture of Scotland. New York: Abrams, 1981. FSU DA760 .S36
Ostrander, Gilman M. “Jefferson and Scottish Culture,” Historical Reflections 2 (1975): 233-48. FSU 905 H672
Parrington, V. L. Main Currents in American Thought. Vol. 2, The Romantic Revolution. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. FSU PS 88 .P33.
Persons, Stow. American Minds: A History of Ideas. New York: Henry Holt, 1958.
Pryde, George S. The Scottish Universities and the Colleges of Colonial America. Glasgow, 1957.
Randall, John Hermann Jr., The Role of Knowledge in Western Religion. (1958)
Ross, Peter. The Scot in America. New York, 1896.
Schmidt, George Paul. Princeton and Rutgers: two Colonial Colleges of New Jersey. Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1964. FSU F 131 .N41 V.5. Schmidt compares and contrast the development of these two New Jersey universities.
_________________. The Old Time College President. New York: Columbia University Press, 1930. This source examines the role of the president in early American universities.
Shapiro, Harold T. Whatever happened to Colonial Colleges? New York: Newcomen Society of the United States, 1993. FSU HD 2328 .N48 NO. 1396. Shapiro discusses the changing demands on early American universities. Chapter three evaluates the role of John Witherspoon at Princeton.
Sher, Richard B. Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate Literati of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1985. FSU B1402 E55 S54 1985
Shores, Louis. Origins of the American College Library, 1683-1800. Nashville, 1934.
Sloan, Douglas. The Scottish Enlightenment and the American College Ideal. New York: Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1971. FSU LA 226 .558. Sloan analyzes the impact that Scottish thinkers had on American institutions. A great deal of this source is focused of Scottish Common Sense at Princeton.
Slosser, Gaius Jackson. They Seek a Country; the American Presbyterians, Some Aspects. New York, 1926.
Smout, T. Christopher, A history of the Scottish people, 1560-1830: London, Collins, 1969. FSU DA772 .S63
Snow, Louis Franklin. The College Curriculum in the United States. Printed in 1907.
Stauffer, Donald A. The Idea of A Princeton Education. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1946.FSU LD 4586 .5 S8. Chapter two concentrates on the tenure of John Witherspoon and the introduction of Scottish Common Sense philosophy.
Stelt, John Vander. Philosophy and Scripture: A Study in Old Princeton and Westminister Theology. Marlton: Mack Publishing Company, 1978. Not Available at FSU.
Stewart, M. A.,ed., Studies in the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. FSU B1402 E55 S88 1990
Thorp, Willard. The Lives of Eighteen from Princeton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947. FSU LD 4598 .T5 1968. Chapter two covers John Witherspoon's presidency.
Trinterud, Leonard J. The Forming of an American Tradition: A Re-examination of Colonial Presbyterianism. Philadelphia: The Westminister Press, 1949.
Tyler, Moses Coit, The Literary History of the American Revolution, 1763-83. 2 vols.: 1897. pp.319-330.
Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson. Early Scotch Contributions to the United States, being a Lecture Delivered within the University of Glasgow on 8th March, 1945. Glasgow, 1945.
______________. Princeton 1746-1896. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1946. FSU LD 4609 .W4. This source is perhaps the best available at Strozier library on the development of Princeton.
White, Morton. The Philosophy of the American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. FSU B878 .W48. Chapter three discusses the importance of Scottish philosophy on the development of American political ideas.
Willey, Basil, The Eighteenth Century Background. (1941)
Wills, Garry, Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978. FSU E221 .W64
Woods, David Walker, Jr. John Witherspoon. Philadelphia: F. H. Resell Co., 1906.
Wright, Esmond. “Education in the American Colonies. The Impact of Scotland,” in E.R.R. Green ed., Essays in Scotch-Irish History. London, 1969, 18-45.
Doctoral Dissertations
Brackett, William Oliver, John Witherspoon: His Scottish Ministry. (Ph.D. diss., Edinburgh University, 1935)
Bradbury, Miles L. “Adventure in Persuasion.” (Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1966)
Casteel, James D. “Professors and Applied Ethics: Higher Education in a Revolutionary Era, 1750-1800.” (Ph.D. diss., George Peabody College for Teachers, 1964)
Fagerstrom, Dalphy I., “The American Revoultion in Scottish Opinion, 1763-83.” (Ph.D. diss., Edinburgh University, 1951)
Fechner, Roger Jerome, The Moral Philosophy of John Witherspoon and the Scottish-American Enlightenment. (Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa, 1974)
Peterson, Richard J., "Scottish Common Sense in America 1768-1850, an Evaluation of its Influence." The American University 1972. Written as a doctorate dissertation, Peterson provides the best available source for evaluating the influence of Common Sense philosophy on America. Because this source was written in 1962, many of his insights could be further developed and extended.
Rich, George Eugene, “John Witherspoon: His Scottish Intellectual Background.” (D.S.S. diss., Syracuse University, 1964)
Scott, Jack Alan, “A Critical Edition of John Witherspoon's Lectures on Moral Philosophy.” (Ph.D. diss., Claremont Graduate School and University Center, 1970)
Shepherd, C. M. "Philosophy and Science in the Arts Curriculum of the Scottish Universities in the Seventeenth Century." University of Edinburgh, 1975.
Witte, Wayne William, “John Witherspoon: An Exposition and Interpretation of His Theological Views As the Motivation of His Ecclesiastical, Educational, and Political Career in Scotland and America.” (Th.D. diss., Princeton Theological Seminary, 1953)
Journal Articles
Ahlstrom, Sydney E. "The Scottish Philosophy and American Theology." CH 24 (1955): 257-72. Not Available at FSU.
Branson, Roy, “James Madison and the Scottish Enlightenment,” Journal of the History of Ideas 40 (1979): 235-50. FSU 105 J863
Broderick, Francis L. "Pulpit, Physics and Politics: The Curriculum of the College of New Jersey, 1794-1846." The William and Mary Quarterly 3rd Series, vol. 2 or 6 (1949), 42-68. FSU 973 .05 W719. This source provides a useful examination of the type of courses taught at Princeton in the first half of the eighteenth century.
Cameron, James K., “The Church of Scotland in the Age of Reason,” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century LVIII (1967), 1939-1951.
Cant, Ronald G., “The Scottish Universities and Scottish Society in the Eighteenth Century,” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 58 (1967) 1953-66. FSU PQ2105.A2 S8
Clive, John and Bernard Bailyn, “England's Cultural Provinces: Scotland and America,” William and Mary Quarterly 3rd Series, vol. 9 (April 1954) 200-213.
Come, Donald R. "The Influence of Princeton on Higher Education in the South before 1825." The William and Mary Quarterly 3rd Series, vol. 2 (Oct. 1945). FSU 973 .05 W719. Come suggests in this article that Princeton played a significant role in the development of southern universities.
Curti, Merle. "Human Nature in American Thought; The Age of Reason and Morality, 1750-1860." Political Science Quarterly 68 (Sept. 1953). FSU Film PR 322, reel 767-771. This article evaluates the influence of Common Sense philosophy on early American political and religious thought.
_______________. "The great Mr. Locke: America's Philosopher, 1783-1861." Hunnington Library Bulletin 11 (April, 1937): 107-51. Curti points to John Locke as the most important philosopher to early American thinkers. He also examines why Locke's philosophy fell from favor with American scholars in the mid-nineteenth century.
Davie, G.E. "Hume and the Origins of the Common Sense School." Revue Internationale de Philosophie 5-6 (1951): 213-21. FSU 378 .41 D254d. Davie's article evaluates the reasons for the growth of Common Sense philosophy and its conflict with Hume's skepticism.
Davis, Merrell, R. "Emerson's 'Reason' and the Scottish Philosophers." New England Quarterly 17 (1941): 209-228. FSU 820 .5 N532. Davis takes a close look at the class taken by Emerson while he was a student at Harvard. His conclusion is that Emerson was profoundly influenced by Scottish Common Sense philosophy.
Duncan, Elmer, H. "Eighteenth-Century Scottish Philosophy: Its Impact on the American West." Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 6 (1975): 131-143. FSU 105 S728. This article, written by the President of Baylor University shows that Common Sense philosophy spread into the early universities of Texas and played a significant role in the development of the universities curriculum.
Emerson, Roger L., “Scottish Universities in the Eighteenth Century, 1690-1800.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. 167 (1977):453-74. FSU PQ2105.A2 S8
Fagerstrom, Dalphy I., “Scottish Opinion and the American Revolution,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 11 (1954): 352-75. FSU 973.05 W719
Gummere, Richard M., “A Scottish Classicist in Colonial America,” Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts XXV (1944): 146-196.
Hamowy, Ronald, “Jefferson and the Scottish Enlightenment,” William and Mary quarterly, 3rd ser., 36 (1979): 503-23. FSU 973.05 W719
Howell, W.S. “The Declaration of Independence and Eighteenth Century Logic.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., XVIII (October, 1961): 463-84.
Hughes, Richard B. "Old School Presbyterians: Eastern Invaders of Texas, 1830-1865." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 84 (1971), 324-36. FSU 105 S728. Hughes agrees with Duncan that Common Sense philosophy was an important element in early Texan universities. Hughes extends his research beyond Duncan to include the contributions of Common Sense trained Presbyterian ministers.
Jones, Howard Munford. "The Influence of European Ideas in Nineteenth-Century America." American Literature 7 (1935), 241-73. This article covers a wide spectum of the impact of European ideas on American thought. A focus is placed on the role of Scottish Common sense realism.
Ketcham, Ralph, “James Madison at Princeton,”The Princeton University Chronicle, XXVIII (Autumn 1966), 24-54.
Leavelle, Arnaud B., “James Wilson and the Relation of the Scottish Metaphysics to American Political Thought,” Political Science Quarterly 57 (1942): 394-410. FSU Film PR 292
Lehrer, Keith. "Can we know that we have free will by introspection?" Journal of Philosophy 57 (1960), 145-56. FSU 105 J86. Lehrer uses the writings of Thomas Reid to confirm that people can prove that they have free will by introspection. Lehrer's article is much more difficult to understand and decipher than the primary sources of Reid. For this reason, the reference appears to have limited use.
Maisel, Albert, “The Scots Among Us”, The Readers Digest, LXVII (August, 1955), 123-128.
Noll, Mark A. "Common Sense Traditions and American Evangelical Thought." American Quarterly 37 (Summer 1985): 216-238. FSU 050 A5125. Noll provides a valuable examination of the close linkage between Common Sense philosophy and early American religious ideas.
Price, Jacob M., “The Rise of Glasgow in the Chesapeake Tobacco Trade, 17707-1775,” William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser., 9 (1954) 179-199.
Robbins, Caroline, “When is it that Colonies May Turn Independent: An Analysis of the Enviromental and Politics of Francis Hutchinson (1694-1746),” William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser., 9 (1954) 214-251.
Shalhope, Robert E., “Toward a Republican Synthesis: The Emergence of an Understanding of Republicanism in American Historiography,” William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser., XXIX (1972) 49-80.
Shepperson, George, “The American Revolution in Scotland,” Scotia 1(1977): 3-17
_____________. “Writings in Scottish-American History: A Brief Survey,” William and Mary College Quarterly 3rd ser., 11 (April, 1954) 163-78.
Smylie, James H. “Madison and Witherspoon,” The Princeton University Library Cronicle, XXII (Spring 1961), 118-132.
Stewart, John, “Madison and Wilson: An Interrupted Philosophy,” The Princeton University Chronicle, XXIII (Spring 1962), 91-108
Taylor, Richard. Review of S.A. Grave's “The Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense.” Philosophical Review (July 1961): 413-416. FSU 105 p5682. Taylor shows a great respect for Grave's research. He concludes, however, that it "conveys little of the genius and brilliance of its main subject, Thomas Reid.
Trevor-Roper, Hugh, “The Scottish Enlightenment,” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century LVIII (1967) 1635-1658.
Tyler, Moses Coit, “President Witherspoon in the American Revolution,” American Historical Review 1 (1896) 671-679.
Whitefield J. Bell. Jr., “Scottish Emigrants to America: a Letter of Charles Nisbet to Dr. John Witherspoon, 1784.” William and Mary College Quarterly 3rd ser., 11 (April, 1954) 286.
Yolton, J.W. "Ideas and Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy." Journal of History of Ideas 13 (1975): 145-165. This article is a general overview of seventeenth century philosophy. The first half is useful for showing the influence that Scottish Common Sense Realism had on France.