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Cameo of Thomas Reid by James Tassie, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. Thomas Reid FRSE (/ r iː d /; 7 May (O.S. 26 April) 1710 [6] – 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.
Scottish common sense realism, also known as the Scottish school of common sense, [1] is a realist school of philosophy that originated in the ideas of Scottish philosophers Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, James Beattie, and Dugald Stewart during the 18th-century Scottish Enlightenment. Reid emphasized man's innate ability to perceive common ideas ...
Title page. Essays on the active powers of the human mind is a book written by the Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid.The first edition was published in 1788 in Edinburgh.It is the third and last volume in a collection of his essays on the powers of the human mind and was preceded by the first book: Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764), in which Reid focussed on ...
Thomas Reid, founder of the Scottish school of Common Sense Contemporary with Hume, but critical of Hume's scepticism, a so-called Scottish school of Common Sense formed, whose basic principle was enunciated by its founder and greatest figure, Thomas Reid :
Thomas Reid, a notable member of the Scottish common sense realism was a proponent of direct realism. [10] Direct realist views have been attributed to Baruch Spinoza. [11] Late modern philosophers, J. G. Fichte and G. W. F. Hegel followed Kant in adopting empirical realism.
Thomas Reid, the eighteenth-century founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, formulated the idea that sensation was composed of a set of data transfers but also declared that there is still a direct connection between perception and the world.
In contrast to Hume, Thomas Reid (1710–96), a student of Turnbull's, along with minister George Campbell (1719–96) and writer and moralist James Beattie (1735–1803), formulated Common Sense Realism. [35] Reid set out his theories in An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764). [36]
Thomas Reid D.D. (1710–1796), was Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow and founder of the Scottish common sense movement in philosophy. Remarkably, his tombstone is to be found in the vestibule of the main building of Glasgow University and directly under the 85m (278 feet) high tower of the Gilbert Scott Building.