 While McCosh regarded the division between empiricists like Bain, and Idealists such as Caird, to be largely exhaustive, he did leave open the possibility of persisting with the insights and methods of Scottish philosophy, and commended a few individuals in this respect, among them Robert Flint (1838–1910), who was Professor of Moral Philosophy at St Andrews before moving to the Chair of Divinity at Edinburgh. McCosh's list is short, and does not include Andrew Seth. Yet arguably it was Seth who, in a major work published some decades later, proved to be the most articulate exponent of the Scottish philosophical tradition, retaining the fundamentals of Scottish philosophy in a highly sophisticated form.