Recent Engagements with Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment

Abstract

Recent literature on Adam Smith and other 18 th Scottish thinkers shows an engaged conversation between the Scots and today's scholars in the sciences that deal with humans-social sciences, humanities, as well as neuroscience and evolutionary psychology.We share with the 18 th century Scots preoccupations about understanding human beings, human nature, sociability, moral development, our ability to understand nature and its possible creator, and about the possibilities to use our knowledge to improve our surrounding and standards of living.As our disciplines evolve, the studies of Smith and Scottish Enlightenment evolve with them. Smith and the Scots remain our interlocutors.