He was educated at Kincardine Parish School then the O'Neil Grammar School in Kincardine. He went to the University of Aberdeen in 1723 and graduated MA in 1726.
He was educated at Kincardine Parish School then the O'Neil Grammar School in Kincardine. He went to the University of Aberdeen in 1723 and graduated MA in 1726.
He was licensed to preach by the Church of Scotland in 1731, when he came of age.
He resigned from this position in 1781, after which he prepared his university lectures for publication in two books: Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785) and Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind (1788). In 1740 Thomas Reid married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of the London physician George Reid.
He began his career as a minister of the Church of Scotland but ceased to be a minister when he was given a professorship at King's College, Aberdeen, in 1752.
He obtained his doctorate and wrote An Inquiry Into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (published in 1764).
He resigned from this position in 1781, after which he prepared his university lectures for publication in two books: Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785) and Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind (1788). In 1740 Thomas Reid married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of the London physician George Reid.
In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
26 April) 1710 – 7 October 1796) was a religiously trained Scottish philosopher.
(Facsimile of the 1823 edition) 1785.
In 1844, Schopenhauer praised Reid for explaining that the perception of external objects does not result from the raw data that is received through the five senses: ===Other philosophical positions=== Though known mainly for his epistemology, Reid is also noted for his views in the theory of action and the metaphysics of personal identity.
Facsimile) Until recently the standard edition of the Inquiry and the Essays has been the sixth edition of William Hamilton (ed.), Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart, 1863.
Ronald Beanblossom and Keith Lehrer, Indianapolis, In: Hackett, 1983. ==References== ==Further reading== Barker, Stephen and Tom Beauchamp, eds., Thomas Reid: Critical Interpretations, University City Science Center, 1976. Terence Cuneo, René van Woudenberg (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Daniels, Norman.
Ronald Beanblossom and Keith Lehrer, Indianapolis, In: Hackett, 1983. ==References== ==Further reading== Barker, Stephen and Tom Beauchamp, eds., Thomas Reid: Critical Interpretations, University City Science Center, 1976. Terence Cuneo, René van Woudenberg (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Daniels, Norman.
Gallie, Thomas Reid and the Way of Ideas, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989. Haldane, John.
Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989. Lehrer, Keith.
London: Routledge, 1989. Rowe, William.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991. Wolterstorff, N.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ==External links== The Papers of Thomas Reid at the University of Aberdeen. The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid – critical edition of Reid's philosophical treatises and previously unpublished materials Reid's Inquiry into the Human Mind, Essays on the Active Powers..., and Essays on the Intellectual powers..., slightly modified for easier reading. Thomas Reid at Google Books Common Sense Philosophy, BBC Radio 4 discussion with A.C.
Ronald Beanblossom and Keith Lehrer, Indianapolis, In: Hackett, 1983. ==References== ==Further reading== Barker, Stephen and Tom Beauchamp, eds., Thomas Reid: Critical Interpretations, University City Science Center, 1976. Terence Cuneo, René van Woudenberg (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Daniels, Norman.
Continuum International, 2006.
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