Philosopher
Thomas Reid
Overview
Thomas Reid (; 7 May (O.S. 26 April) 1710 – 7 October 1796) was a religiously trained Scottish philosopher best known for his philosophical method, his theory of perception, and its wide implications on epistemology, and as the developer and defender of an agent-causal theory of free will. He also focused extensively on ethics, theory of action, language and philosophy of mind.
He was the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense and played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment. In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. A contemporary of David Hume, Reid was also "Hume's earliest and fiercest critic".
Reid is known for his book Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind (1788), in which he discusses the active behavioral nature of the human mind, including discourses about free will, principles of action and morals.
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Philosophers who discussed Thomas Reid
- Kitarō Nishida
- Nicholas Wolterstorff
- George Berkeley
- Heraclitus
- Joseph Butler
- James Mill
- Victor Cousin
- Dugald Stewart
- Adam Smith
- David Ray Griffin
- Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)
- Ernest Renan
- Richard Price
- Keith Lehrer
- Ralph Cudworth
- Roderick Chisholm
- Hugo Grotius
- David Hume
- James McCosh
- John Major (philosopher)
- Henry Longueville Mansel
- Michael Bergmann (philosopher)
- George Turnbull (theologian)
- Alexander Broadie
Ideas Thomas Reid discusses
- Nicholas Wolterstorff
- Reformed epistemology
- Foundationalism
- Francis Bacon
- George Berkeley
- G. E. Moore
- The World as Will and Representation
- Philosophy
- Western philosophy
- Immanuel Kant
- Marischal College
- Idealism
- John Stuart Mill
- John Locke
- Victor Cousin
- Adam Ferguson
- Adam Smith
- Metaphysics
- Stoicism
- Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
- Aesthetics
- University of Aberdeen
- Common sense
- Natural theology
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.