Thomas Reid on Mind, Knowledge, and Value

by Copenhaver, Rebecca; Buras, Todd

• ISBN13: 9780198733676
• ISBN10: 0198733674
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-10-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Rebecca Copenhaver, Lewis & Clark College,Todd Buras, Baylor University

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Thomas Reid's Experimentum Crucis, Todd Buras
2. Reid on Instinctive Exertions and the Spatial Contents of Sensations, Chris Lindsay
3. Perceptual and Imaginative Conception: The Distinction that Reid Missed, Marina Folescu
4. Four Questions about Acquired Perception, James van Cleve
5. Seeing White and Wrong: Reid on the Role of Sensation in Perception, Lucas Thorpe
6. Thomas Reid on Aesthetic Perception, Rebecca Copenhaver
7. Thomas Reid's Expressivist Aesthetics, Rachel Zuckert
8. Reid on Aesthetic Response and the Perception of Beauty, Laurent Jaffro
9. Pragmatism and Reid's 'Third Way', Patrick Rysiew
10. The Defense of Principles of Common Sense: A Reidian Solution to the Epistemic Circularity Problem, Angelique Thebert
11. Theism, Coherence and Justification in Reid's Epistemology, Gregory Poore
12. Does Reid have Anything to Say to (the New) Hume?, Terence Cuneo
13. Reid on Favors, Injuries and the Natural Virtues of Justice, Lewis Powell and Gideon Yaffe