William Dudgeon (philosopher)

• The Necessity of some of the Positive Institutions of Ch__ty Considered, 1731. • The State of the Moral World considered; or a Vindication of Providence in the Government of the Moral World, 1732. An attempt to solve the problem of the existence of evil. • Philosophical Letters concerning the Being and Attributes of God, 1737. These were addressed to John Jackson, a follower of Samuel Clarke. Dudgeon argued that Clarke's principles involve the conclusion that God is the only substance. • A Catechism founded upon Experience and Reason. Collected by a Father for the use of his Children, with an Introductory Letter to a Friend concerning Natural Religion, 1744. Natural religion is treated as the common element in all religious systems, which alone is true. A collected edition appeared, under the title of The Philosophical Works of Mr. William Dudgeon, in 1765. [Reprinted by Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1994.] • Andrew Baxter, 'Some reflections on a late pamphlet called, ‘The state of the moral world considered’' (1732). • 'History of the Works of the Learned', April 1737, art. 26 [a review of Dudgeon-Jackson Correspondence]. • 'Bibliothèque Raisonnée' (April/May/June 1737) [a review of Dudgeon-Jackson Correspondence]. ==References and Secondary Sources==

• James McCosh, The Scottish philosophy, biographical, expository, critical, from Hutcheson to Hamilton (New York, 1875) · • Paul Russell, ‘Dudgeon, William’, The dictionary of eighteenth-century British philosophers, ed. J. W. Yolton, J. V. Price, and J. Stephens (1999). • Paul Russell, 'The Riddle of Hume's Treatise: Skepticism, Naturalism and Irreligion' (Oxford University Press: 2008). • [Paul Russell], "William Dudgeon”, 'New Dictionary of National Biography'. (Oxford University Press: 2004): https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/8140 ;Attribution