Terence Cuneo, René van Woudenberg's The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid (Cambridge Companions PDF

By Terence Cuneo, René van Woudenberg

ISBN-10: 0521812704

ISBN-13: 9780521812702

Commonly said because the important architect of Scottish logic philosophy, Thomas Reid is more and more famous this day as one of many most interesting philosophers of the eighteenth century. Combining a cosmopolitan reaction to the skeptical and idealist perspectives of his day, Reid's notion represents a tremendous substitute to Humean skepticism, Kantian idealism and Cartesian rationalism. This paintings covers not just his philosophy yet his clinical examine and vast ancient effect.

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During Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 Reid in Context 47 the Scottish Enlightenment all the scientists were Baconian and none more so than Reid, who praised Bacon’s theory and followed him in practice no less than he criticized Aristotle’s theory and did not follow him in practice. Reid affirms: The art of syllogism produced numberless disputes, and numberless sects, who fought against each other with much animosity, without gaining or losing ground; but did nothing considerable for the benefit of human life.

27 He inherited the Gregory mantle and his life-long active interest in the mathematical sciences28 has to be seen in relation to this intellectual context provided by the family. The physical sciences, such as astronomy, also attracted him and he reports astronomical observations that he made. The family interest in observational astronomy is no less important in this context. In particular Reid’s great uncle James Gregory was credited with the invention of the reflecting telescope. 29 It is not that philosophy was not at the heart of his endeavors, but that Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 38 alexander broadie his philosophical ideas cannot be considered in isolation from his scientific work without seriously diminishing his philosophy.

1v. There is an edition of this ms in LRF. Turnbull 1740, I: 8. The Principles abounds in such phraseology. Turnbull 1740, I: 39–40. The comment on “many philosophers” is a dig principally at Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Mandeville. Turnbull 1740, I: 46. Turnbull 1740, I: 90. For discussion of this quotation from Turnbull, and for its relation to Reid, see Broadie 2002a. Turnbull 1740, II: 22. Ibid. xi: 160. Turnbull 1740, II: 23. Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 52 alexander broadie 49.

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