Thomas Reid
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Thomas Reid was a religiously trained Scottish philosopher best known for his philosophical method, his theory of perception, and its wide implications on epistemology, and as the developer and defend
Reid as painted by Henry Raeburn in 1796
Cameo of Thomas Reid by James Tassie, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow
Scottish Enlightenment
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The Scottish Enlightenment was the period in 18th- and early-19th-century Scotland characterised by an outpouring of intellectual and scientific accomplishments. By the eighteenth century, Scotland ha
Thomas Reid
…ethics, theory of action, language and philosophy of mind. He was the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense and played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment. In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. A contemporary of David Hume, Reid was also "Hume's earliest and fiercest critic…
David Hume and Adam Smith on the Scottish National Portrait Gallery