Preface and Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. The Study of the Scottish Enlightenment: an Autobiographical Journey; Part One: Scottish Enlightenment; Introduction to Part One; 2. James Dunbar and Ideas of Sociality and Language in Eighteenth Century Scotland; 3. James Dunbar and the Enlightenment Debate on Language; 4."Climate" in the Eighteenth Century: James Dunbar and the Scottish Case; 5. Sociality and Socialisation; 6. Rude Religion: The Psychology of Polytheism in the Scottish Enlightenment; 7. ‘But art itself is Natural to Man’: Ferguson and the Principle of Simultaneity; 8. Finding Space for Civil Society; Part Two: David Hume; Introduction to Part Two; 9. Hume on Rationality in History and Social Life; 10. Lusty Women and Loose Imagination: Hume’s Philosophical Anthropology of Chastity; 11. Hume and the Customary Causes of Industry, Knowledge and Commerce; 12. Hume’s Universalism: The Science of Man and the Anthropological Point of View; 13. Hume and Superfluous Value (or the problem with Epictetus’ Slippers); 14. Science and Superstition: Hume and Conservatism; 15. Hume on Happiness; Part Three: Adam Smith; Introduction to Part Three; 16. Adam Smith’s “Considerations” on Language; 17. Smith and Science; 18. Adam Smith: Commerce, Liberty and Modernity; 19. Adam Smith and the Virtues of a Modern Economy; 20. Adam Smith’s Science of Human Nature; 21. Adam Smith on Liberty ‘in our present sense of the word’.