New Essays on Thomas Reid

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-85928-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

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 cornerstone of Hume’s (and many other philosophers’) theories. For those familiar with Reid’s work, it is clear that its significance extends well beyond his challenging the theory of ideas.

The variety of topics which this book covers attests to the richness and variety of Reid’s philosophical contributions, and the persisting relevance of his work to contemporary philosophical debates. The work included in this book, by leading figures in Reid scholarship, deals with aspects of Reid’s views on topics ranging from perception, to epistemology, to ethics and meta-ethics, through to language, mind, and metaphysics. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rysiew, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introducation Part I: Perception 2. Reidian Dual Component Theory Defended 3. Reid’s Response to Hume’s Perceptual Relativity Argument 4. The Extension of Colour Sensations: Reid, Stewart, and Fearn Part II: Moral theory 5. Reid on the Moral Sense 6. Reid on the First Principles of Morals 7. Reid’s Moral Psychology - Animal Motives as Guides to Virtue Part III: Epistemology 8. Common Sense in Thomas Reid 9. Thomas Reid on Truth, Evidence and First Principles 10. Reid’s First Principle #7 11. Reason and Trust in Reid Part IV: Mind, Language, Metaphysics 12. Reid on Powers of the Mind and the Person Behind the Curtain 13. Reid on the Priority of Natural Language 14. Disagreement, Design, and Thomas Reid

Über Autor(innen)

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.