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On the basis of a limited literary output and a scandalous reputation, historians have often marginalised John Wilkes's role in the development of radical political ideas in England in the 1760s and 1770s. This monograph re-evaluates Wilkes's contribution in the context of his association with the radical Enlightenment. Firstly it examines Wilkes's collaboration with the poet Charles Churchill on the North Briton and Wilkes's Introduction to the History of England written in exile. Secondly, it examines Wilkes's extensive association with leading philosophes - and in particular d'Holbach,...

What makes science possible? Specifically, what features of the human mind, of human cognitive development, and of human social arrangements permit and facilitate the conduct of science? The essays in this volume address these questions, which are inherently interdisciplinary, requiring co-operation between philosophers, psychologists, and others in the social and cognitive sciences. They concern the cognitive, social, and motivational underpinnings of scientific reasoning in children and lay persons as well as in professional scientists.