Thomas Reid on Mind, Knowledge, and Value

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.

1 - Thomas Reid's Experimentum Crucis
2 - Reid on Instinctive Exertions and the Spatial Contents of Sensations
3 - Perceptual and Imaginative Conception: The Distinction that Reid Missed
4 - Four Questions about Acquired Perception
5 - Seeing White and Wrong: Reid on the Role of Sensation in Perception
6 - Thomas Reid on Aesthetic Perception
7 - Thomas Reid's Expressivist Aesthetics
8 - Reid on Aesthetic Response and the Perception of Beauty
9 - Pragmatism and Reid's 'Third Way'
10 - The Defense of the First Principles of Common Sense in Reid's Epistemology: A New Use for Track-Record Arguments
11 - Theism, Coherence and Justification in Reid's Epistemology
12 - Does Reid have Anything to Say to (the New) Hume?
13 - Reid on Favors, Injuries and the Natural Virtues of Justice

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).