Nicholas Phillipson is Honorary Research Fellow in History at Edinburgh, where he has taught since 1965. He has held visiting appointments at Princeton, Yale, Tulsa, the Folger Library, Washington DC and the Ludwigs-Maximilian Universitat, Munich. He is co-director of a three-year Leverhulme-funded project on the Science of Man in Scotland. He was an associate editor of the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, a founder editor of the journal Modern Intellectual History, published by the Cambridge University Press, and is a past president of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society.
His biography of Adam Smith was published by Penguin in August 2010 and by Yale in October 2010. It is the joint winner of the Scottish Research Book of the Year, a prize awarded by the Saltire Society.
His biography of Adam Smith was published by Penguin in August 2010 and by Yale in October 2010. It is the joint winner of the Scottish Research Book of the Year, a prize awarded by the Saltire Society.
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