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30Thomas Reid: Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man Thomas Reid Critical Edition. Edited by Derek R. Brookes with Annotations by Derek R. Brookes and Knud Haakonssen and Introduction by Knud Haakonssen The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. xiv + 651 pp., $95.00 (review)Dialogue 43 (2): 393-. 2004.
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29An Inquiry into Thomas ReidDialogue 39 (2): 381-. 2000.This book is the second volume of a critical edition of the writings of Thomas Reid, an edition that will include many of his manuscript remains as well as his previously published works. These volumes are intended to displace the heretofore standard 8th edition of Reid’s works edited by Sir William Hamilton. Hamilton’s edition is marred by his numerous, often intrusive, and obtuse footnotes. Reid’s spelling and punctuation were also sometimes “corrected” by Hamilton, so his edition does not pre…Read more
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9Philosophy in the Twentieth Century A. J. Ayer London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982. Pp. 283. £12.50 (review)Dialogue 23 (1): 169-171. 1984.
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15A Sinking Island: The Modern English Writers (review)Philosophy and Literature 14 (1): 222-223. 1990.
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17Lehrer Reading ReidDialogue 30 (1-2): 103-. 1991.Lehrer's “reason for writing this book is that the philosophy of Thomas Reid is widely unread, while the combination of soundness and creativity of his work is unexcelled.” The book contributes to the ongoing Reid revival. Chapter 1 presents an overview of Reid's life and works and the last, Chapter 15, gives Lehrer's appraisal of Reid's philosophy. Chapter 2, “Beyond Impressions and Ideas,” outlines Reid's “refutation of what he called the Ideal System” of impressions and ideas that dominated p…Read more
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Varieties of Relativism (review)Dialogue 37 (1): 163-164. 1998.It is impossible to summarize this book at all adequately in a review; the book itself is a summary of various relativist/anti-relativist arguments. Any attempt to condense these still further can only yield something too coarse and shallow to be useful. Instead, I shall set out as briefly as I can how the authors conceive the debate between relativists and their opponents. Their programmatic conception foreshadows the remainder of the book.
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12The Philosophical Orations of Thomas ReidPhilosophy Research Archives 3 916-990. 1977.Thomas Reid delivered philosophical orations triennially, in Latin, at graduation ceremonies in King's College, Aberdeen, 1753-1762. Each of the four orations is a summary of Reid's views on several philosophical topics, e.g. the "laws of practising philosophy"; the philosophy of science; the "theory of ideas". This translation from the Latin text is prefaced with an historical and philosophical introduction to the thought of Reid and his school. The text is footnoted with cross-references to Re…Read more
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1"Norman Daniels, "Thomas Reid's "inquiry": The geometry of visibles and the case for realism" (review)Dialogue 28 (4): 671-674. 1989.
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32The New Criterion Reader: The First Five Years (review)Philosophy and Literature 13 (1): 194-195. 1989.
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32Ideals and Idols: Essays on Values in History and in Art E. H. Gombrich Oxford: Phaidon, 1979. Pp. 224Dialogue 21 (2): 381-384. 1982.
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19An Inquiry into Thomas ReidDialogue 39 (2): 381-388. 2000.This book is the second volume of a critical edition of the writings of Thomas Reid, an edition that will include many of his manuscript remains as well as his previously published works. These volumes are intended to displace the heretofore standard 8th edition of Reid's works edited by Sir William Hamilton. Hamilton's edition is marred by his numerous, often intrusive, and obtuse footnotes. Reid's spelling and punctuation were also sometimes “corrected” by Hamilton, so his edition does not pre…Read more
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42The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought Allan Bullock and Oliver Stallybrass, editors London: Fontana/Collins, 1978. Pp. xix, 684. $12.95 C.F (review)Dialogue 23 (4): 738-740. 1984.
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15Peter Kivy, "Thomas Reid's Lectures on the Fine Arts" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 13 (4): 534. 1975.
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26Metaphysics and Common Sense. By A. J. Ayer. London. Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1969. Pp. xi, 267. $8.95 (review)Dialogue 9 (2): 258-261. 1970.
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23Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse (review)Philosophy and Literature 2 (2): 269-271. 1978.
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1Gideon Yaffe, Manifest Activity: Thomas Reid's Theory of Action Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 25 (3): 229-231. 2005.