id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6286 American philosophy - Wikipedia .html text/html 9485 952 54 Ronald Hamowy published a critique of Garry Wills's Inventing America,[38] concluding that "the moment [Wills's] statements are subjected to scrutiny, they appear a mass of confusions, uneducated guesses, and blatant errors of fact."[39] Another investigation of all of the contributors to the United States Declaration of Independence suggests that only Jonathan Witherspoon and John Adams embraced the imported Scottish morality.[40] While Scottish innate sense realism would in the decades after the Revolution become the dominate moral philosophy in classrooms of American academia for almost 100 years,[41] it was not a strong influence at the time of the Declaration was crafted.[42] Johnson's American Practical Idealism and Edwards' Reform Puritan Calvinism were far stronger influences on the men of the Continental Congress and on the Declaration.[43] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6286.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6286.txt