Adam Smith: systematic philosopher and public thinker

1. Introduction: Systematic philosopher and public thinker. a. Systems in Adam Smith ; b. Smith's corpus two systems of philosophy ; c. A bibliographic interlude ; d. Methodologic remarks ; e. Summary

Part 1: Propensities and passions. 2. Passionate human nature. a. Human propensities and Smithian social explanation ; b. Mind, language, and society

3. The Passions, rationality, and reason. a. Natural passions ; b. Proto-passions, preconceptions, and why Smith is not an empiricist ; c. Causation, sound judgment, and environmental rationality ; d. Reason as an active principle ; e. Natural unexpected passions : the intellectual sentiments ; f. Derived passions

4. From natural sentiments to general rules and moral sentiments. a. Natural sentiments: i. Smith's criticisms of Hume's account of property, ii. The natural sentiments and general rules ; b. Moral faculties : the moral sense and conscience

5. The sympathetic process and judgments of propriety. a. Sympathetic process (feelings) ; b. Sympathy and knowledge of causal relations ; c. Judgments of proportionality ; d. Counterfactual reasoning in the sympathetic processe ; e. The piacular, or on seeing oneself as a moral cause in Adam Smith: i. We (ought to) see ourselves as causes!, ii. Norms of appeasement, or On experts and Smith's embrace of fortune ..., iii. Superstition and grandeur, iv. Natural sentiments and enlightenment, or Nature versus reason ; f. The impartial spectator

Part 2: Society. 6. Society and political taxonomy : individuals, classes, factions, nations, and governments 7. Adam Smith's foundations for political philosophy. a. "A new utopia" ; b. Even the humane Smith ; c. Belonging to society: i. The genealogy of property, ii. Original and derived property, iii. The turn to history : the enlightenment imperative 8. Social institutions and consequentialism. a. Society, justice, and group selection ; b. Utility and social institutions ; c. The measure of real price : Adam Smith's science of equity ; d. Progressive taxation ; e. On theoretical partiality toward the working poor ; f. The role of the legislator : private virtue, public happiness ; g. Liberty ; h. Regulating markets 9. Virtue. a. Virtue as excellence or virtue in common life? ; b. Excellent-​in-​virtue-​of-​character

10. Three invisible hands. a. The invisible hand of Jupiter, and miracles ; b. The "vain and insatiable desires" of the rich ; c. Promoting unintended ends in WN ; d. Comparing the three invisible hands

11. Philosophy of science. a. Philosophy within the division of labor ; b. Social epistemology and the impartial spectator ; c. Copernicus and Newton : modest scientific realism ; d. Magnanimous superstition

12. The methodology of wealth of nations. a. Reflexivity ; b. Natural and market prices ; c. Deviations from nature, "The price of free competition": i. Newton's Fourth rule of reasoning, ii. Descartes and Kepler's irregularities ; d. The role of institutions ; e. Model, cause, and process : Smithian social explanation ; f. Hume versus Smith on the introduction of commerce ; g. Hume's natural rate of propagation and Smith's digression on silver

13. Smith and anti-mathematicism. a. Smith's Newtonianism reconsidered ; b. The road to true philosophy ; c. Anti-mathematicism and proportionality in Hume and Smith

Part 3: Philosphers. 14. Religion. a. Biblical revelation and Christian theology ; b. Anticlericalism and freedom of religion

15. A cheerful philosophical life. a. The commercial philosopher ; b. Hume's exchange with Charon ; c. Friendship, sincerity, and real happiness

Part 4: Conclusion. Conclusion.