Introduction to Thomas Reid’s Inquiry Into the Human Mind
Thomas Reid argues for the importance of the philosophy of mind, recognizes the obstacles to knowing the mind's inner workings, sketches its history, including Hume ... » Go
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Thomas Reid on Skepticism and Reasoning Oneself Out of Reason
He must either be a fool, or want to make a fool of me, that would reason me out of my reason and senses. ... ... » Go
On the Liberty of Moral Agents
Taking square aim at Hume’s “Of Liberty and Necessity“, Thomas Reid roundly rejects the compatibility of necessity or determinism and moral responsibility. Instead, he sketches ... » Go
Thomas Reid on Some Limitations of Free Will
This moral liberty a man may have, though it do not extend to all his actions, or even to all his voluntary actions. He does ... » Go
Thomas Reid on Rationalism and Empiricism in the Philosophy of Mind
There is such proneness in men of genius to invent hypotheses, and in others to acquiesce in them as the utmost which the human faculties ... » Go
Thomas Reid on Induction and Hume’s Skepticism
It is a common observation, that it is unreasonable to require demonstration for things which do not admit of it. It is no less unreasonable ... » Go
Thomas Reid on Actively Thinking
To body we ascribe various properties, but not operations, properly so called; it is extended, divisible, movable, inert; it continues in any state in which it is ... » Go
Thomas Reid on the Mind as That Which Thinks
By the mind of a man we understand that in him which thinks, remembers, reasons, wills. The essence both of body and of mind is ... » Go
Thomas Reid on Phenomenolgy and Knowing Thyself
Mr. Hume has justly observed, that “all the sciences have a relation to human nature; and, however wide any of them may seem to run from ... » Go
Thomas Reid on the Philosophy of Mind
The mind of man is the noblest work of God which reason discovers to us, and therefore, on account of its dignity, deserves our study. It must, ... » Go
Thomas Reid on Plants and Animals
We have no reason to ascribe intelligence, or even sensation, to plants; yet there appears in them an active force and energy, which cannot be ... » Go