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About James Mylne
- James Mylne (Kinnaird, Gowrie, 3 September 1757 – 21 September 1839) was a Scottish philosopher and academic who was born in Perthshire in 1757 and educated at the University of St Andrews.
- He served as Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow from 1797 to 1837.
- His father-in-law was the philosopher John Millar and the philosopher James McCosh was among his students.
- He was a member of the Glasgow Literary Society.He was also the great-uncle of Frances Wright, who lived with him for a time.
- Mylne is the subject of a biography, Rational Piety and Social Reform in Glasgow (Wipf and Stock, 2015), by Dr Stephen Cowley.
- Mylne's philosophy was a theistic empiricism and he regarded utility as the primary measure of morality.
- He found a larger place for reason in mental life than his predecessors at Glasgow Francis Hutcheson and Thomas Reid, of the moral sense and common sense schools respectively.
- Mylne also lectured on political economy at the Universityof Glasgow from a standpoint generally sympathetic to Adam Smith.
- Politically he was a Whig. Some of his notes in manuscript are held by the Special Collections Department of the Library of the University of Glasgow.
- Other student notes are held by the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, New College Library, Edinburgh and the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh.
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