| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Mind Association Occasional Series |
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Mind Association occasional series.
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| 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 -- Thomas Reid's expressivist aesthetics / Rachel Zuckert -- 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796.
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| SUBJECT |
Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796 fast |
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Philosophy of mind.
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epistemology.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Philosophy of mind
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Copenhaver, Rebecca, 1971- editor.
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Buras, Todd, editor
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| ISBN |
9780191798047 |
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0191798045 |
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9780191053405 |
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0191053406 |
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