 Though the expression “Scottish philosophy” came to be ever more widely used in the second half of the 19th century, its first appearance was in the title of a privately printed pamphlet by J.F. Ferrier—Scottish Philosophy, the Old and the New (1854). Ferrier chose this title because his pamphlet was expressly written in defence of the contention that it is possible to engage in something called “Scottish philosophy” while departing radically from the tenets of Reid, Stewart and so on. Ferrier writes with great force and feeling.