Thomas Brown

Thomas Brown (1778-1820) was a Scottish psychologist, born in Kirkcudbrightshire, bred to medicine. He was professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, colleague and successor to Dugald Stewart. His lectures, all improvised on the spur of the moment, were published posthumously. "Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind" established a sixth sense, which he called the "muscular." He was a man of precocious talent, and a devoted student, to the injury of his health and the shortening of his life. He was obliged from ill-health to resign his professorship after 10 years.