Charles Bradford Bow is Lecturer in Modern History and Deputy Director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. He is the editor of Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment (OUP, 2018) and co-editor with Michael Brown of 525 Years in the Pursuit of Truth: A New History of the University of Aberdeen (AUP, 2022). His research on the intellectual history of Scottish Enlightenment philosophy has appeared in Modern Intellectual History, Scottish Historical Review, Historical Research, Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, History of European Ideas, Intellectual History Review, and the Journal of Scottish Philosophy.