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New Essays on Thomas Reid book cover

1st Edition

New Essays on Thomas Reid

Edited By Patrick Rysiew Copyright 2015
264 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

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Thomas Reid (1710-96) was a contemporary of both David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and a central figure in the Scottish School of Common Sense. Until recently, his work has been largely neglected, and often misunderstood. Like Kant, Reid cited Hume’s Treatise as the main spur to his own philosophical work. In Reid’s case, this led him to challenge ‘the theory of ideas’, which he saw as the... Read more

1. Introducation

Patrick Rysiew

Part I: Perception

2. Reidian Dual Component Theory Defended

Todd Buras

3. Reid’s Response to Hume’s Perceptual Relativity Argument

Lorne Falkenstein

4. The Extension of Colour Sensations: Reid, Stewart, and Fearn

Giovanni Grandi

Part II: Moral theory

5. Reid on the Moral Sense

Rebecca Copenhaver

6. Reid on the First Principles of Morals

Terence Cuneo

7. Reid’s Moral Psychology - Animal Motives as Guides to Virtue

Esther Kroeker

Part III: Epistemology

8. Common Sense in Thomas Reid

John Greco

9. Thomas Reid on Truth, Evidence and First Principles

Keith Lehrer

10. Reid’s First Principle #7

Patrick Rysiew

11. Reason and Trust in Reid

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Part IV: Mind, Language, Metaphysics

12. Reid on Powers of the Mind and the Person Behind the Curtain

Laurent Jaffro

13. Reid on the Priority of Natural Language

John Turri

14. Disagreement, Design, and Thomas Reid

René van Woudenberg

Biography

Patrick Rysiew is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria. His primary research interest is in epistemology, including its points of intersection with certain issues in philosophy of language and psychology. He has published a number of articles on Reid.

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