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Description: Life and work of 18th century Scottish philosopher; by Gideon Yaffe.
Thomas Reid (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Portrait courtesy of the National Trust for Scotland First published Mon Aug 28, 2000; substantive revision Fri Feb 20, 2009 Thomas Reid (1710-1796) is a Scottish philosopher and one of the founders of the “common sense†school of philosophy. (Also included in the common sense school are such less well-known 18th century philosophers as James Beattie, George Campbell, and Dugald Stewart.) Reid is best known for his epistemology of sensation—he believes that sensations serve to make us directly aware of real objects without the aid of any intervening medium—and for his view of free will—he holds that the only free actions are those that come about through a causal process originated by the agent. In the explication of both he offers perceptive and important criticisms of the philosophy of Locke, Berkeley and especially Hume. He is also well known for his criticisms of Locke's view of personal identity and Hume's view of causation. However, Reid also wrote on a wide variety of other philosophical topics including ethics, aesthetics and various topics in the philosophy of mind.
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