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This volume offers a fresh view of the work of Thomas Reid, a leading figure in the history of eighteenth-century philosophy. A team of leading experts in the field explore the significance of Reid's thought in his time and ours, focusing in particular on three broad themes: mind, knowledge, and value. Together, they argue that Reid's philosophy is about developing agents in a rich world of objects and values, agents with intellectual and active powers whose regularity is productive. Though such agents are equipped at first with rudimentary abilities, those abilities are responsive. Our powers consist in a fundamental and on-going engagement with the world, a world that calls on us to be flexible, sensitive, astute, and ultimately, practical. Thomas Reid on Mind, Knowledge, and Value represents both the vitality of Reid's work, and the ways in which current philosophers are engaging with his ideas.

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Author:   Rebecca Copenhaver (Lewis & Clark College) ,  Todd Buras (Baylor University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.574kg
ISBN:  

9780198733676

ISBN 10:   0198733674
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   06 August 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Todd Buras: Thomas Reid's Experimentum Crucis 2: Chris Lindsay: Reid on Instinctive Exertions and the Spatial Contents of Sensations 3: Marina Folescu: Perceptual and Imaginative Conception: The Distinction that Reid Missed 4: James van Cleve: Four Questions about Acquired Perception 5: Lucas Thorpe: Seeing White and Wrong: Reid on the Role of Sensation in Perception 6: Rebecca Copenhaver: Thomas Reid on Aesthetic Perception 7: Rachel Zuckert: Thomas Reid's Expressivist Aesthetics 8: Laurent Jaffro: Reid on Aesthetic Response and the Perception of Beauty 9: Patrick Rysiew: Pragmatism and Reid's 'Third Way' 10: Angelique Thebert: The Defense of the First Principles of Common Sense in Reid's Epistemology: A New Use for Track-Record Arguments 11: Gregory Poore: Theism, Coherence and Justification in Reid's Epistemology 12: Terence Cuneo: Does Reid have Anything to Say to (the New) Hume? 13: Lewis Powell and Gideon Yaffe: Reid on Favors, Injuries and the Natural Virtues of Justice

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This remarkable anthology of thirteen wonderful essays demonstrates not only the originality, brilliance, sophistication, and relevance of Reidâs philosophy, but also attests the widespread interest in his ideas * Adam Weiler Gur Arye, Journal of Scottish Philosophy *

This remarkable anthology of thirteen wonderful essays demonstrates not only the originality, brilliance, sophistication, and relevance of Reidas philosophy, but also attests the widespread interest in his ideas Adam Weiler Gur Arye, Journal of Scottish Philosophy

This remarkable anthology of thirteen wonderful essays demonstrates not only the originality, brilliance, sophistication, and relevance of Reidas philosophy, but also attests the widespread interest in his ideas * Adam Weiler Gur Arye, Journal of Scottish Philosophy *

Author Information

Rebecca Copenhaver is Professor of Philosophy at Lewis & Clark College, where she has taught since 2001. Her research interests are in early modern philosophy, Thomas Reid, and philosophy of mind. Her work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Res Philosophica, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Quarterly, History of Philosophy Quarterly, The Journal of the History of Philosophy, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, and The Oxford Handbook on British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century. She is co-author with Brian P. Copenhaver of From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950 (University of Toronto Press, 2012). Todd Buras is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University, where he has taught since 2003. His research has appeared in the Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Quarterly, American Philosophical Quarterly, and the Journal of the History of Philosophy. Support for work on this paper was provided by Bogaziç i BAP project 5706 (Realism from Kant and Reid to Sellars, Williamson and Mcdowell) and Tubitak Project 114K348 (Concepts and Beliefs: From Perception to Action).

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