Peter Howard Jones

Professor of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh

Science and Religion Before and After Hume

Jones’s series of lectures were never published.

Biography

Peter Howard Jones was born on 18 December 1935 in London. A philosopher, his primary research interests are the Scottish Enlightenment and aesthetics. Assistant Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Nottingham in 1963, he moved to the University of Edinburgh as Lecturer in 1964. He became Reader in 1977 and Professor in 1984, retiring in 1998. In addition, Jones was Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh from 1986 to 2000 and was Trustee of the National Museums of Scotland from 1987 to 1999. 

Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University in 1984 and the Calgary Institute for the Humanities in 1992, he was also Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Jones’s publications include Philosophy and the Novel (1975), Hume’s Sentiments (1982), and Ove Arup: Master Builder of the Twentieth Century (2006). In addition, he has edited several books on the Enlightenment, including Philosophy and Science in the Scottish Enlightenment (1988), Adam Smith Reviewed (1992), and The Enlightenment World (2004).

Published/Archival Resources
These lectures have not been published and no archival information is available..