Thomas Reid on mind, knowledge, and value / edited by Rebecca Copenhaver and Todd Buras.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Copenhaver, Rebecca, 1971- editor.

Buras, Todd, editor.

Series:

Mind Association occasional series.

Mind Association occasional series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796.

Reid, Thomas.

Common sense.

Philosophy of mind.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Virtue epistemology.

Social ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 271 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays in this volume tell part of the story about Reid's significance in his time and ours. They represent three broad themes in his philosophy: mind, knowledge, and value. The essays present Reid's philosophy of 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 ongoing engagement with a world that calls on us to be flexible, sensitive, astute, and, ultimately, practical.

Contents:

Thomas Reid's Experimentum Crucis / Todd Buras

Thomas Reid on instinctive exertions and the spatial context of sensations / Chris Lindsay

Perceptual and imaginative conception: the distinction Reid missed / Marina Folescu

Four questions about acquired perception / James Van Cleve

Seeing white and wrong: Reid on the role of sensations in perception, with a focus on colour perception / Lucas Thorpe

Thomas Reid on aesthetic perception / Rebecca Copenhaver

Thomas Reid's expressivist aesthetics / Rachel Zuckert

Reid on aesthetic perception / Rebecca Copenhaver

Reid on aesthetic response and the perception of beauty / Laurent Jaffro

Pragmatism and Reid's third way / Patrick Rysiew

The defense of the first principles of common sense in Reid's epistemology: a new use for track-record arguments / Angélique Thébert

Theism, coherence, and justification in Thomas Reid's epistemology / Gregory S. Poore

Does Reid have anything to say to (the new) Hume? / Terence Cuneo

Reid on favors, injuries, and the natural virtue of justice / Lewis Powell and Gideon Yaffe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-105341-4

0-19-105340-6

0-19-179804-5

OCLC:

921238499