Works by Christopher J. Berry
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- Social Theory of the Scottish Enlightenment.Christopher J. Berry -1997 - Edinburgh University Press.David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, Lord Kames, John Millar, James Dunbar and Gilbert Stuart were at the heart of Scottish Enlightenment thought. This introductory survey offers the student a clear, accessible interpretation and synthesis of the social thought of these historically significant thinkers. Organised thematically, it takes the student through their accounts of social institutions, their critique of individualism, their methodology, their views of progress and of moral and cultural values. By taking human sociality as their premise, (...) the book shows how they produced important analyses of historical change, politics and morality, together with an assessment of their own commercial society. (shrink)No categories
- The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment.Christopher J. Berry -2013 - Edinburgh University Press.The most arresting aspect of the Scottish Enlightenment is its conception of commercial society as a distinct and distinctive social formation. Christopher Berry explains why Enlightenment thinkers considered commercial society to be wealthier and freer than earlier forms, and charts the contemporary debates and tensions between Enlightenment thinkers that this idea raised. The book analyses the full range of literature on the subject, from key works like Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations', David Hume's 'Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects' and (...) Adam Ferguson's 'Essay on the History of Civil Society' to lesser-known works such as Robert Wallace's 'Dissertation on Numbers of Mankind'. (shrink)
- Are there multiple memory systems? Tests of models of implicit and explicit memory.David R. Shanks &Christopher J. Berry -2012 -Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 65:1449-1474.This article reviews recent work aimed at developing a new framework, based on signal detection theory, for understanding the relationship between explicit (e.g., recognition) and implicit (e.g., priming) memory. Within this framework, different assumptions about sources of memorial evidence can be framed. Application to experimental results provides robust evidence for a single-system model in preference to multiple-systems models. This evidence comes from several sources including studies of the effects of amnesia and ageing on explicit and implicit memory. The framework allows (...) a range of concepts in current memory research, such as familiarity, recollection, fluency, and source memory, to be linked to implicit memory. More generally, this work emphasizes the value of modern computational modelling techniques in the study of learning and memory. (shrink)
- The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith.Christopher J. Berry,Maria Pia Paganelli &Craig Smith (eds.) -2013 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.Preface Introduction Christopher J. Berry: Adam Smith: Outline of Life, Times, and Legacy Part One: Adam Smith: Heritage and Contemporaries 1: Nicholas Phillipson: Adam Smith: A Biographer's Reflections 2: Leonidas Montes: Newtonianism and Adam Smith 3: Dennis C. Rasmussen: Adam Smith and Rousseau: Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment 4: Christopher J. Berry: Adam Smith and Early Modern Thought Part Two: Adam Smith on Language, Art and Culture 5: Catherine Labio: Adam Smith's Aesthetics 6: James Chandler: Adam Smith as Critic 7: Michael C. (...) Amrozowicz: Adam Smith: History and Poetics 8: C. Jan Swearingen: Adam Smith on Language and Rhetoric: The Ethics of Style, Character, and Propriety Part Three: Adam Smith and Moral Philosophy 9: Christel Fricke: Adam Smith: The Sympathetic Process and the Origin and Function of Conscience 10: Duncan Kelly: Adam Smith and the Limits of Sympathy 11: Ryan Patrick Hanley: Adam Smith and Virtue 12: Eugene Heath: Adam Smith and Self-Interest Part Four: Adam Smith and Economics 13: Tony Aspromourgos: Adam Smith on Labour and Capital 14: Nerio Naldi: Adam Smith on Value and Prices 15: Hugh Rockoff: Adam Smith on Money, Banking, and the Price Level 16: Maria Pia Paganelli: Commercial Relations: from Adam Smith to Field Experiments Part Five: Adam Smith on History and Politics 17: Spiros Tegos: Adam Smith: Theorist of Corruption 18: David M. Levy & Sandra J. Peart: Adam Smith and the State: Language and Reform 19: Fabrizio Simon: Adam Smith and the Law 20: Edwin van de Haar: Adam Smith on Empire and International Relations Part Six: Adam Smith on Social Relations 21: Richard Boyd: Adam Smith, Civility, and Civil Society 22: Gavin Kennedy: Adam Smith on Religion 23: Samuel Fleischacker: Adam Smith and Equality 24: Maureen Harkin: Adam Smith and Women Part Seven; Adam Smith: Legacy and Influence 25: Spencer J. Pack: Adam Smith and Marx 26: Craig Smith: Adam Smith and the New Right 27: Tom Campbell: Adam Smith: Methods, Morals and Markets 28: Amartya Sen: The Contemporary Relevance of Adam Smith. (shrink)
- A unitary signal-detection model of implicit and explicit memory.Christopher J. Berry,David R. Shanks &Richard N. A. Henson -2008 -Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12 (10):367-373.Do dissociations imply independent systems? In the memory field, the view that there are independent implicit and explicit memory systems has been predominantly supported by dissociation evidence. Here, we argue that many of these dissociations do not necessarily imply distinct memory systems. We review recent work with a single-system computational model that extends signal-detection theory (SDT) to implicit memory. SDT has had a major influence on research in a variety of domains. The current work shows that it can be broadened (...) even further in its range of application. Indeed, the single-system model that we present does surprisingly well in accounting for some key dissociations that have been taken as evidence for independent implicit and explicit memory systems. (shrink)
- Smith and science.Christopher J. Berry -1996 - In Knud Haakonssen,The Cambridge companion to Adam Smith. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Smith under Strain.Christopher J. Berry -2004 -European Journal of Political Theory 3 (4):455-463.
- (1 other version)Models of recognition, repetition priming, and fluency: Exploring a new framework.Christopher J. Berry,David R. Shanks,Maarten Speekenbrink &Richard N. A. Henson -2011 -Psychological Review 24.We present a new modeling framework for recognition memory and repetition priming based on signal detection theory. We use this framework to specify and test the predictions of 4 models: (a) a single-system (SS) model, in which one continuous memory signal drives recognition and priming; (b) a multiple-systems-1 (MS1) model, in which completely independent memory signals (such as explicit and implicit memory) drive recognition and priming; (c) a multiple-systems-2 (MS2) model, in which there are also 2 memory signals, but some (...) degree of dependence is allowed between these 2 signals (and this model subsumes the SS and MS1 models as special cases); and (d) a dual-process signal detection (DPSD1) model, 1 possible extension of a dual-process theory of recognition (Yonelinas, 1994) to priming, in which a signal detection model is augmented by an independent recollection process. The predictions of the models are tested in a continuous-identification-with-recognition paradigm in both normal adults (Experiments 1–3) and amnesic individuals (using data from Conroy, Hopkins, & Squire,2005). The SS model predicted numerous results in advance. These were not predicted by the MS1 model, though could be accommodated by the more flexible MS2 model. Importantly, measures of overall model fit favored the SS model over the others. These results illustrate a new, formal approach to testing theories of explicit and implicit memory. (shrink)
- Hume's universalism: The science of man and the anthropological point of view.Christopher J. Berry -2007 -British Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (3):535 – 550.My focus is Hume's advertised attempt to establish foundationally a science of man. Though it is not his sole motivation, central to this effort is his intention to undermine the credibility of superstitious, supernatural accounts of what makes humans and their social life function. The argument of this paper is that attempts to downplay Hume's universalism and, in virtue of his recognition of diversity, to identify him as subscribing to some form of historicism or relativism, are mistaken or at best (...) fail to apprehend the centrality of his assault on unscientific accounts of human nature. (shrink)
- Margaret Watkins, The Philosophical Progress of Hume's Essays.Christopher J. Berry -2019 -Journal of Scottish Philosophy 17 (3):241-243.
- Science and superstition: Hume and conservatism.Christopher J. Berry -2011 -European Journal of Political Theory 10 (2):141-155.This article argues that to call Hume a conservative is a shorthand label that is at least insecure and at most a distortion. It is not claimed that the label is fanciful or without justification but the argument does serve to raise questions as to its accuracy once it is subject to further inspection and, consequently, to doubt its aptness or utility in capturing what is a key characteristic of Hume’s sociopolitical thought. This argument is constituted as follows. After some (...) preliminary refinement of the topic, part I, in order to establish that the paper is not attacking a ‘straw-man’, identifies, by using Oakeshott as a benchmark, those aspects of Hume’s thought that most securely underwrite attributing the conservative label. Part II constructs an argument to render the conservative label insecure, by drawing attention to the case for Hume as a liberal. Part III outlines the grounds for the further claim that when Hume’s commitment to ‘science’ and his polemics against superstition, and other ‘chimerical’ practices and principles, are taken on board then the stronger case that the label is a distortion can be judged to have substance. (shrink)
- The rise of the human sciences.Christopher J. Berry -2015 - In Aaron Garrett & James Anthony Harris,Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century: Volume I: Moral and Political Thought. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK.This chapter examines a key focal characteristic of the Scottish Enlightenment, namely, its delineation of how a ‘science of man’ can inform and structure an account of ‘society’. The key contribution of the Scots to the rise of the human sciences lies in a conception of society as a set of interlocked institutions and behaviours. The Scots provided an analysis of both social statics and social dynamics, which shifted the focus away from the individualism that characterized early modern jurisprudence. Humans (...) as social beings are best understood in society and not as monadic individuals. The Scottish analysis also sidelined the centrality traditionally allotted to the political. Humans are social as well as political animals. Political institutions are simply one kind of institution among several, to be given no greater priority than the rest. (shrink)Export citation
Bookmark - On the status of unconscious memory: Merikle and Reingold (1991) revisited.Christopher J. Berry,David R. Shanks &Richard N. A. Henson -2006 -Journal of Experimental Psychology 32 (4):925-934.
- Adam Smith's Considerations on Language.Christopher J. Berry -1974 -Journal of the History of Ideas 35 (1):130.
- Hume on Rationality in History and Social Life.Christopher J. Berry -1982 -History and Theory 21 (2):234-247.Like other Enlightenment thinkers, Hume provides a formal account of social life with a substantive theory of rationality. Hume has a noncontextualist theory of human nature. Human nature possesses certain constant and universal principles, the operation of which are unaffected by history of sociocultural contexts. Some social practices are more rational, more "in tune" with human nature, than others. Although Hume is resigned to the fact that customs are too deep-rooted to be eradicated, his theories of rationality and social life (...) permit him to identify and censure superstition. (shrink)
- Of pigs and men : Luxury in Plato's republic.Christopher J. Berry -1989 -Polis 8 (1):2-24.
- Adam Smith and Early-Modern Thought.Christopher J. Berry -2013 - In Christopher J. Berry, Maria Pia Paganelli & Craig Smith,The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Using Smith’s own references to thinkers he identifies as significant pioneers, the chapter presents a synoptic and necessarily gross-grained selective survey. It pays particular attention to the thought of Descartes, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Pufendorf and also to Shaftesbury, Mandeville, and Hutcheson. Newton, because he is the chief subject of another chapter, is not here considered but Harrington, though not mentioned by Smith in this context, is included. While Smith can be seen to take something from all these thinkers, without exception (...) this is done critically. This duality recurs as the survey proceeds. (shrink)No categories
- David Hume.Christopher J. Berry -2009 - Continuum.The third volume in the Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers.
- (1 other version)From Hume to Hegel: The Case of the Social Contract.Christopher J. Berry -1977 -Journal of the History of Ideas 38 (4):691.
- Hume, Hegel, and human nature.Christopher J. Berry -1982 - Hingham, MA: Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Kluwer Boston.This is both a modest and a presumptuous work. It is presumptuous because, given the vast literature on just one of its themes, it attempts to discuss not only the philosophies of both Hume and Hegel but also something of their intellectual milieu. Moreover, though the study has a delimiting perspective in the relation ship between a theory of human nature and an account of the various aspects that make up social experience, this itself is so central and protean that (...) it has necessitated a discussion of, amongst others, theories of history, language, aesthetics, law and politics. Yet it is a modest work in that, although I do think I have some fresh things to say, the study does not propose any revolutionary new reading of the material. I am not here interested in the relative validity of the theories put forward - I do not 'take sides'. Nevertheless it is part of the modest intent that recourse to Hume and Hegel in arguments pertaining to human nature will be better inform ed and more discriminating as a consequence of this study. Additionally, some distinctions herein made also shed light on some assumptions made in contem porary debates in the philosophy of social science, especially those concerning the understanding of alien belief-systems. (shrink)
- Human nature and political conventions.Christopher J. Berry -1999 -Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 2 (2):95-111.That there is some connection between politics and human nature is a commonplace, but why and in what way they are conjoined is disputed. Aristotle's practice of comparing humans with other animals, and not conceptually divorcing them, is fruitful. By adopting a similar practice an indirect linkage (rather than Aristotle's direct one) between human nature and politics is identified. The strategy is to locate at least one universal aspect of human nature which is non‐political that, nonetheless, carries with it a (...) requirement that universally calls forth a political response. The aspect is reproductive sex and the need to ensure that offspring survive. In humans, the natural fact of paternal uncertainty is dealt with by conventions, but, because of this, these vary (for example, as between matrilineal and patrilineal kinship systems). But what is necessitated amid this variety is a need to establish an authoritative allocation of responsibility for nurture. Politics is the exercise of that authority. However, because of its roots in conventions called forth by human nature, the link is indirect. The conclusion is that contemporary attempts to re‐establish a direct link are bound to be inconclusive. (shrink)
- 11. Hume on Commerce, Society, and Ethics.Christopher J. Berry -2017 - In Eugene Heath & Byron Kaldis,Wealth, Commerce, and Philosophy: Foundational Thinkers and Business Ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 221-240.Export citation Bookmark
- Hegel on the World-historical.Christopher J. Berry -1981 -History of European Ideas 2 (2):155-162.
- Introduction.Christopher J. Berry -2013 - In Christopher J. Berry, Maria Pia Paganelli & Craig Smith,The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press.This introductory chapter provides a selective contextual overview. The salient features of Smith’s life are outlined and what little information is available of his personality is identified. That Smith was a key member of the Scottish Enlightenment is recognized with a discussion of the broad social milieu in which Smith lived as well as an overview of what was distinctive about the thought of the Scots and what they shared with the Enlightenment more generally. The legacy and history of Smith’s (...) two key books from his death to the present day is sketched. (shrink)No categories
- Kuhn and the History of Ideas.Christopher J. Berry -1979 -British Journal for the History of Science 12 (3):295-298.
- Luxury and the politics of need and desire-the Roman case.Christopher J. Berry -1989 -History of Political Thought 10 (4):597-613.Export citation Bookmark
- Lectures on the Philosophy of World History: Introduction : G.W.F. Hegel, trans. H.B. Nisbet, introduction Duncan Forbes , pp. xxxviii+251, PB £5.50.Christopher J. Berry -1982 -History of European Ideas 3 (2):249-252.
- Out of the Coffee House or How Political Economy Pretended to Be a Science From Montchrétien to Steuart.Christopher J. Berry -2020 -Social Philosophy and Policy 37 (1):10-29.The essay investigates the proposition that economic questions are a fit subject for science. This investigation will involve a selective examination of seventeenth-century writings before looking at again selective Enlightenment texts. The essay is deliberately wide ranging, but it aims to pick out the emergence or crystallization of political economy by noting how theorists sought to establish it as a subject matter and in the process develop ways of studying it that aimed to uncover regularities and exhibit generality, systematicity, and (...) precision. Together these supported its pretensions or claims to be a science that would in a Baconian manner be useful and free of the perceived shackles of a moralistic classical disparagement of economic activity. (shrink)
- O problema da coesão na sociedade comercial.Christopher J. Berry -2020 -Discurso 50 (1).No categories
- On the meaning of progress and providence in the fourth century.Christopher J. Berry -1977 -Heythrop Journal 18 (3):257–270.
- The nature of wealth and the origins of virtue: Recent essays on the Scottish Enlightenment.Christopher J. Berry -1986 -History of European Ideas 7 (1):85-99.
- The Rise of the Human Sciences.Christopher J. Berry -2015 - In Aaron Garrett & James Anthony Harris,Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century: Volume I: Moral and Political Thought. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK.This chapter examines a key focal characteristic of the Scottish Enlightenment, namely, its delineation of how a ‘science of man’ can inform and structure an account of ‘society’. The key contribution of the Scots to the rise of the human sciences lies in a conception of society as a set of interlocked institutions and behaviours. The Scots provided an analysis of both social statics and social dynamics, which shifted the focus away from the individualism that characterized early modern jurisprudence. Humans (...) as social beings are best understood in society and not as monadic individuals. The Scottish analysis also sidelined the centrality traditionally allotted to the political. Humans are social as well as political animals. Political institutions are simply one kind of institution among several, to be given no greater priority than the rest. (shrink)Export citation Bookmark
- David Allan Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment: Ideals of Scholarship in Early Modern History, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1993, pp. viii + 276.Christopher J. Berry -1994 -Utilitas 6 (2):332.
- Between tradition and revolution: The hegelian transformation of political philosophy : Manfred Riedel , 191 pp., £20.00. [REVIEW]Christopher J. Berry -1986 -History of European Ideas 7 (4):428-429.
- Hegel: An introduction, Second Edition : Raymond Plant , 253 pp., £17.50 Hardback, £6.50 Paperback. [REVIEW]Christopher J. Berry -1985 -History of European Ideas 6 (3):360-361.
- Review of James R. Otteson:Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life. [REVIEW]Christopher J. Berry -2003 -Journal of Scottish Philosophy 1 (2):184-187.
- Laurence Dickey, "Hegel: Religion, Economics, and the Politics of Spirit 1770-1807". [REVIEW]Christopher J. Berry -1991 -History of Political Thought 12 (4):731.Export citation Bookmark
- Rubel on Karl Marx : Five essays : ed. and trans. J. O'Malley and K. Algozin , ix + 309 pp., £15.00. [REVIEW]Christopher J. Berry -1983 -History of European Ideas 4 (2):229-230.
- Review of Willie Henderson's The origins of David Hume's economics. London and New York: Routledge, 2010, 228 pp. [REVIEW]Christopher J. Berry -2011 -Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 4 (1):108.
- Ryan Patrick Henley ed., Adam Smith: His Life, and Legacy. [REVIEW]Christopher J. Berry -2017 -Journal of Scottish Philosophy 15 (1):145-148.
- Review: The Manuscripts of Adam Ferguson. [REVIEW]Christopher J. Berry -2006 -Journal of Scottish Philosophy 4 (2):177-179.
- Peter Jones and Andrew S. Skinner, eds., Adam Smith Reviewed, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1992. pp. xii + 251. John J. Jenkins, Understanding Hume, ed. Peter Lewis and Geoffrey Madell, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1992, pp. 215. [REVIEW]Christopher J. Berry -1994 -Utilitas 6 (1):155.
- (2 other versions)Thomas Reid on Practical Ethics: Being Lectures and Papers on Natural Religion, Self-Government, Natural Jurisprudence, and the Law of Nations. [REVIEW]Christopher J. Berry -1992 -Utilitas 4 (2):331-333.
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