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Mary Primrose was the second daughter of Neil Primrose, 3rd Earl of Rosebery. She was born at Barnbougle Castle on the family estate near Dalmeny, Midlothian.
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Mary Primrose was the second daughter of Neil Primrose, 3rd Earl of Rosebery. She was born at Barnbougle Castle on the family estate near Dalmeny, Midlothian.
Shepherd was the author of at least two philosophical books According to Robert Blakey, who gave her an entry in his History of the Philosophy of the Mind, she exercised considerable influence over the Edinburgh philosophy of her day. In the first, an essay on the relation between cause and effect, she criticised the views of David Hume, Thomas Brown and the physiologist William Lawrence.
Shepherd"s correspondence shows a continuing interest in philosophical questions.
A private philosophical controversy with the amateur philosopher John Fearn over the relation between perception and physical extension was published in Parriana (1828). After learning of its publication, Shepherd wrote in defence of her position in Fraser"son
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In her second book of essays, on the perception of an external universe, she argued against both the idealism of George Berkeley and Thomas Reid"s epistemological reliance on natural instinct.