Proponents of Scottish common-sense philosophy, especially Thomas Reid, James Oswald and James Beattie, had a substantial influence on late enlightenment German philosophy. In this study Manfred Kuehn explores the nature and extent of that. He finds that the work of these philosophers was widely discussed in German philosophical journals and translated into German soon after its publication in Britain. Important German philosophers such as Mendelssohn, Lossius, Feder, Hamann and Jacobi, representing the full range of philosophical positions, read the Scots and found valuable philosophical...