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The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid: Thomas Reid on the Animate Creation: Papers Relating to the Life Sciences. Ed. Paul Wood (2009) The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid: Essays on the Active Powers of Man. Eds Knud Haakonssen and James A. Harris (2010) The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid: Thomas Reid on Society and Politics: Papers and.
Reid's Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man also takes particular issue with the Cartesian and Lockean philosophy which held that the direct objects of mental acts were ideas in the mind, a point of view which necessitated the consequent attempts to provide philosophical proof to justify one's belief in physical objects, the past, other minds, etc. Reid saw in this position the roots of.
Summary: Thomas Reid (1710-1796) was a Scottish philosopher and key figure in the Scottish Common Sense School. He taught at Kings College Aberdeen before succeeding Adam Smith as Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow in 1764. Reid is primarily known for the epistemological theory he develops in response to the perceived failings of the 'way of ideas', the position.
The work contains a set of essays on active power, the will, principles of action, the liberty of moral agents, and morals. Reid was a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment and one of the founders of the 'common sense' school of philosophy. In Active Powers Reid gives his fullest exploration of sensus communis as the basis of all philosophical inquiry. He uses common sense realism to argue.
A selection of philosophy texts by philosophers of the early modern period, prepared with a view to making them easier to read while leaving intact the main arguments, doctrines, and lines of thought. Texts include the writings of Hume, Descartes, Bacon, Berkeley, Newton, Locke, Mill, Edwards, Kant, Leibniz, Malebranche, Spinoza, Hobbes, and Reid.
The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid: Thomas Reid on the Animate Creation: Papers Relating to the Life Sciences. Ed. Paul Wood (2009) The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid: Essays on the Active Powers of Man. Eds Knud Haakonssen and James A. Harris (2010) The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid: Thomas Reid on Society and Politics: Papers and Lectures.
The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid Series Editor(s): Knud Haakonssen The Edinburgh Edition makes available the first critical editions of the philosophical treatises that established Reid as the great critic of David Hume, as well as extensive, previously unpublished manuscript materials, which show Reid as a strikingly versatile Enlightenment thinker.