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	Thomas Reid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Reid (April 26, 1710 – October 7, 1796), Scottish philosopher, and a contemporary of David Hume, was the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, and played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment.
		Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense) is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry.
		Reid claimed that common sense tells us that there is matter and mind.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Reid (549 words)

	Thomas Reid
		Thomas Reid (1710-1796) is a Scottish philosopher and one of the founders of the "common sense" school of philosophy.
		Reid accepts that the qualities which we ordinarily conceive objects to have — whether shapes, sizes and motions, on the one hand, or colors, sounds, tastes and smells, on the other — are genuinely possessed by those objects (barring illusions and disorders of various sorts, which are, incidentally, difficult for Reid to explain).
		Reid does not rest content to defend the claim that human beings are the efficient causes of their own behavior by responding to the best objections to it; he also provides three positive arguments for the claim which he labels, prosaically, the ‘first ’, ‘second ’ and ‘third argument for moral liberty ’.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/reid (12748 words)

	THOMAS REID - LoveToKnow Article on THOMAS REID (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Reid graduated at Aberdeen in 1726, and remained there as librarian to the university for ten years, a period which he devoted largely to mathematical reading.
		But Reids actions are better than his words; his real mode of procedure is to redargue flumes conclusions by a refutation of the premises inherited by him from his predecessors.
		Nevertheless, Reids insistence on judgment as the unit of knowledge and his sharp distinction between sensation and perception must still be recognized as of the highest importance.
	54.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RE/REID_THOMAS.htm (1929 words)

	Philip de Bary - Thomas Reid and Scepticism: His reliabilist response - Reviewed by James Somerville, The University of ...
		Reid, he says, âstarts his reasoned attack on scepticism from a clear-eyed acknowledgement that in its most radical form, scepticism cannot be answered.â Two passages are cited where Reid is said to seem âopenly to countenance the possibility that an extreme scepticism might be correctâ (p.
		Although Reid does not cite Cudworth or Price on this issue, he must have read their accounts; as well as Lockeâs jest with the skeptic that âif all be a Dream,â the skeptical questioning is part of this long dream so that it does not matter now what one calls a dream.
		Reidâs assault on the theory, far from being irrelevant to diabolical or divine deception, has the potential to undermine the blockbuster fallibilism de Bary attributes to him.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=1103 (2233 words)

	The Philosophy of Common Sense (1895): by Henry Sidgwick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Reid’s Hume is a sceptic who boldly denies the infinite divisibility of space, who professes to have in his intellectual laboratory a solvent powerful enough to destroy the force of the most cogent demonstration, and who ventures to tell his fellow-men plainly that they are each and all
		Accordingly, in Reid’s view it is the duty of a philosopher—his duty as a philosopher—to aim steadily and persistently at bringing the common human element of his intellectual life into clear consistency with the special philosophic element.
		It was reserved to Reid to point out the illegitimacy of this assumption, and to derive it from a confused half unconscious transfer to Mind and its functions of cognition, of the conditions under which body acts on body in ordary physical experience.
	fair-use.org /mind/1895/04/the-philosophy-of-common-sense (3991 words)

	Thomas Reid
		Reid can be taken here to be imagining a kind of conversation between "the vulgar" on the one hand and " the philosopher" on the other.
		Reid accepts that the qualities which we ordinarily conceive objects to have -- whether shapes, sizes and motions, on the one hand, or colors, sounds, tastes and smells, on the other -- are genuinely possessed by those objects (barring illusions and disorders of various sorts, which are, incidentally, difficult for Reid to explain).
		Reid is very impressed by results in geometric optics and holds that while there is no similarity between sensations of color and the quality in objects which cause those sensations, there is a non-arbitrary connection between visual sensations of shape and size and the qualities of objects which cause those sensations.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /archives/spr2001/entries/reid (6475 words)

	Gideon Yaffe - Manifest Activity: Thomas Reid's Theory of Action - Reviewed by Terence Cuneo, Calvin College - ...
		Thomas Reid is widely regarded as having made important contributions to philosophy in three broad areas--the philosophy of perception, epistemology, and the theory of human action.
		Reid's solution to the first worry is to claim that motives are not mental states such as desires, but the objects of such states and that, strictly speaking, the objects of these states don't exist, as they are abstracta of a certain kind.
		The interest in Reid's theory of action in the philosophical literature has generally been concerned to explicate his theory of agent causation and evaluate whether it can withstand certain types of criticism, preeminent among which is that it commits Reid to an infinite regress of agent causes.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=1821 (2832 words)

	Reid Bibliography (Squillante) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Stewart-Robertson, ed., "Georgica Animi: A Compendium of Thomas Reid's Lectures on the Culture of the Mind," Rivista di Storia della Filosofia 1 (1990): 113-56.
		Brody, "Reid and Hamilton on Perception," The Monist 55 (1971): 423-41.
		A historical reconstruction of the philosophy of Reid's teacher at the University of Aberdeen.
	www.c18.rutgers.edu /biblio/reid.html (2909 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: REID, THOMAS MAYNE
		Thomas Mayne Reid, novelist and adventurer, was born on April 4, 1818, in Ballyroney, County Down, Ireland, the son of Rev. Thomas Mayne Reid, senior clerk of the Irish General Assembly.
		Reid enlisted in the First New York Volunteer Infantry and on December 3, 1846, was commissioned a second lieutenant.
		Captain Reid died in London on October 22, 1883, and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/RR/fre24.html (995 words)

	Thomas Reid: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/thomas_reid.htm (1657 words)

	Thomas Reid: Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
		Thomas Reid (1710-1796) is increasingly seen as a philosopher of lasting importance and as a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment.
		Reid's Common Sense philosophy responds to these problems by suggesting that skeptics such as Hume unavoidably affirm what they purport to deny—namely, the existence of a stable external world, of other minds, of the continuity of their own minds, and of their own and other people's ability to ascribe and accept responsibility for actions.
		Reid's major positive contribution to philosophy is a detailed account of the various innate powers of the mind.
	www.psupress.org /books/titles/0-271-02236-1.html (338 words)

	Thomas Reid
		Reid used a legalistic argument to support this contention: He said that since many were incapable of possessing the intellect to realize the world in a philosophical manner, that the proof of matter had to be simple - it just was a bare fact of the world.
		Reid put forth the notion that certain cognitive abilities were simply instincts that all living things with advanced brains shared.
		For Reid to stress that these were necessary and instinctual to man makes him a forerunner to Maslow and his heirarchy of needs.
	www.candleinthedark.com /reid.html (793 words)

	The Philosophy of Thomas Reid - Book Information
		Thomas Reid was one of the greatest philosophers of the eighteenth century and a contemporary of Kant's.
		This volume is part of a new wave of international interest in Reid from a new generation of scholars.
		This is followed by ten original essays exploring different aspects of Reid's philosophy, as well as his relation to other thinkers, such as Kant, Priestley, and Moore.
	www.blackwellpublishing.com /book.asp?ref=140510905X (222 words)

	Thomas Reid’s Ethics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Thomas Reid was one of the great figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, as famous in his day as David Hume and Adam Smith; but until recently his reputation was in eclipse.
		Thomas Reid (1710-96) was one of the most daring and original thinkers of the eighteenth century.
		Thomas Reid's Ethics begins by characterizing the state of moral epistemology at the time when Reid was writing.
	www.thoemmes.com /404.asp?404;http://www.thoemmes.com/18cphil/reid_ethics.htm (377 words)

	The Claremont Institute: Defending Thomas
		Thomas L. Krannawitter is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and an assistant professor of political science at Hillsdale College.
		Savvy liberals like Reid are right to be more concerned with Thomas than Scalia because Thomas' natural-law jurisprudence represents the greatest threat to the liberal desire to replace limited, constitutional government with a regulatory-welfare state of unlimited powers.
		Thomas' recourse not only to the text of the Constitution but specifically to the founders' natural-law defense of constitutional government is fatal to liberalism's goal.
	www.claremont.org /writings/precepts/041213.html (757 words)

	New York Daily News - Ideas & Opinions - Zev Chafets: Slap at Thomas stinks of racism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Reid is, after all, the conservative leader of a liberal Senate faction.
		Reid never would have had the brass to attack Thomas as an incompetent dummy without the encouragement of his party's fl establishment.
		Thomas once said of such race-based slander, "Though being underestimated has its advantages, the stench of racial inferiority still confounds my olfactory nerves." Or in simple English, for the benefit of Sen. Reid, it stinks.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/ideas_opinions/story/259801p-222503c.html (658 words)

	Clarence Thomas, illiterate [Brain Shavings] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Perhaps Reid sees Scalia as a great (if misguided) legal mind and a leader while Thomas is something less original, a follower, and that if we're going to have to choose one of them as chief justice, better to go with the strongest, most original mind.
		Thomas would prefer that minorities be held to the same high standards as everyone else, so their achievements won't be diminished by the stigma of preferences.
		The views of Thomas, Chavez, Rice, Janice Rogers Brown, and other minority conservatives are to the Democrats what apostasy is to religious fanatics, and people on the left are at their most vicious when criticizing minorities who've gone off the Democrat plantation.
	www.brainshavings.com /mt/archives/001524.html (2235 words)

	The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid
		First, all of Reid's published works will be made available for the first time in texts that have been critically established and which will be accompanied by manuscripts that directly relate to their creation.
		Reid's manuscript writings cover a surprising range of topics in political and economic theory, as well as contemporary political and social issues.
		Reid was a leading figure in both of the universities he served and his activity in and thoughts about the university resulted in several writing of significance.
	www.lclark.edu /~reidsoc/Edition.html (898 words)

	Thomas Reid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Thomas Reid, the 18th Century Scottish philosopher/theologian, wrote an Inquiry in which he sought, among many other things, to explain two facts: 1.
		Now returning to the Inquiry of Thomas Reid; my own interest, which is always kantian, is primarily in what he did not report, namely how it is that the human finds such doubling to be curious* and the experiments/observations undertaken to explain the doubling.
		In summary: Thomas Reid has made some observations which we will all have made at some early time, namely that objects split before our very eyes.
	www.mindspring.com /~kantwesley/Kant/ThomasReid.html (1629 words)

	Author Profile: Thomas M. Reid
		Thomas, formerly an editor, creative director, and more for various lines at both TSR, Inc. and Wizards of the Coast, has seen several of his novels published over the past several years (including his latest, which is called The Ruby Guardian).
		Thomas Reid: I started writing fiction when I was in grade school.
		Thomas: I don't think I've met that one special character yet; I think he or she is still lurking somewhere inside my head, waiting to be born.
	wizards.com /default.asp?x=books/fr/tmreidap (1755 words)

	Critics: Reid Racist for Clarence Thomas Remarks
		Reid seemed to be around just 15 minutes before he made a fool of himself.
		Commenting on liberal criticism of Thomas' jurisprudence, University of Wisconsin Law Professor Ann Althouse wrote: "It is my observation that liberals tend to lapse into the lazy belief that those who don't agree with them must be stupid or evil, and to me Reid's remarks look a bit like that...
		Assuming you are a trained lawyer, a number of the other justices rely on Thomas, not Scalia, for clarification on the case at hand; his memory of case facts, and ability to analyze their relevance is obviously a trait that is sought after.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1301558/posts (1872 words)

	Thomas M. Reid - Forgotten Realms author
		Thomas was born to Norma and Tony Reid in a snowstorm in the mountains of Fort Collins, Colorado, two days before the Christmas of 1966.
		Thomas graduated high school in 1985, convinced he was going to be a civil engineer.
		Thomas lived in Wisconsin for nearly six years, working initially as an editor and eventually being promoted to Creative Director at TSR, Inc. While living in the dairy state, Teresa gave birth to two terrific sons, Aidan and Galen, and the family bought their very first house.
	www.o-love.net /realms/auth_rei.html (649 words)

	OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today
		Reid said he respected the views of groups who opposed Thomas, but "after a thorough airing of opinions in the committee, no evidence emerged demonstrating a lack of capability in the president's nominee."
		Thomas drew fire for his skeptical views toward affirmative action and "natural law," and for refusing to disclose his opinion on abortion.
		Yet Thomas survived, because it turned out that only three senators were weak-minded enough to join the lynch mob after previously announcing their support for his confirmation.
	www.opinionjournal.com /best/?id=110006181 (2737 words)

	Scottish Realism
		Reid was disturbed by studying Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (1739), which he thought denied the objective reality of external objects, the principle of causation, and the unity of the mind.
		Reid traced Hume's skepticim to what he considered a common fallacy in the great philosophers Descartes, Locke, and Berkeley: representational idealism, which postulates that "the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them" (Essay on Intellectual Powers, IV,4,3).
		Stewart's successor, Thomas Brown, moved even further in an empiricist direction, and is considered a bridge between Scottish Realism and the empiricism of J S Mill.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txc/scotreal.htm (706 words)

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	Thomas Reid at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		His reputation waned after attacks on the Scottish School of Common Sense by Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill, but his was anyway the philosophy taught in the colleges of North America, during all the XIX century.
		His reputation has arisen again in the wake of the advocacy of common sense as a philosophical method or criterion by G.
		Moore early in the century, and more recently due to attention given Reid by contemporary philosophers such as William Alston and Alvin Plantinga.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Thomas_Reid.html (428 words)

	Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The two great philosophical figures at the culminating point of the Enlightenment are Thomas Reid in Scotland and Immanuel Kant in Germany.
		Reid was by far the most influential across Europe and the United States well into the nineteenth century.
		Relating Reid’s philosophy to present-day epistemological discussions the author demonstrates how they are at once remarkably timely, relevant, and provocative.
	www.cambridge.org /aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521539307 (367 words)

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