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    Seule oeuvre de philosophie morale que Thomas Reid ait publiee, les Essais sur les pouvoirs actifs de l'homme (1788) avaient ete concus a l'origine comme une seconde partie de l'expose final de sa pensee. Ces essais viennent ainsi completer les Essais sur les pouvoirs intellectuels de l'homme (1785) et temoignent de la meme inspiration - une inspiration bien loin de se limiter a la simple philosophie du sens commun qu'on a voulu y voir. Dans ce texte d'une limpidite exemplaire, le philosophe eco…Read more
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    Thomas Reid on Mathematics and Natural Philosophy
    with Paul Wood
    Edinburgh University Press. 2017.
    Reconstructs Reid's career as a mathematician and natural philosopher for the first time.
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    Thomas Reid on Society and Politics
    with Knud Haakonssen and Paul Wood
    Edinburgh University Press. 2015.
    "A collection of manuscripts on political, economic, and social issues by the eighteenth-century philosopher Thomas Reid, with notes and commentary"--Provided by publisher.
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    Thomas Reid and the University
    with Paul Wood
    Edinburgh University Press. 2021.
    Reid's ideas on education are a direct development of his theory of the mind, and the writings in this volume form an integral part of his philosophy that has, until now, been ignored.
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    Thomas Reid - Essays on the Active Powers of Man
    with Knud Haakonssen and James Harris
    Edinburgh University Press. 2010.
    The Essays on the Active Powers of Man was Thomas Reid's last major work. It was conceived as part of one large work, intended as a final synoptic statement of his philosophy. The first and larger part was published three years earlier as Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man. These two works are united by Reid's basic philosophy of common sense, which sets out native principles by which the mind operates in both its intellectual and active aspects. The Active Powers shows how these principle…Read more
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    Esė apie žmogaus mąstymo galias
    Problemos 81. 2012.
    On the Intellectual Powers of Man Thomas Reid.
  • On the Intellectual Powers of Man
    Problemos 81 179-185. 2012.
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    English summary: The reason for this text's success lies in the variety of the book: there is a refutation of skepticism, a defense of common sense, a doctrine on the five senses, the major themes of sensation, attention, perception and belief, long essays on optics, and a chapter devoted entirely to non-Euclidean geometry. French text. French description: Les Recherches sur l'entendement humain paraissent en 1764 et sont traduites en francais des 1768, signe d'un rapide succes a l'echelle de l'…Read more
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    Essays on the Active Powers of Man, Essay IV: Of the Liberty of Moral Agents
    In Thomas Nadelhoffer, Eddy A. Nahmias & Shaun Nichols (eds.), Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Readings, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 246. 2010.
  • Identity and temporal parts
    In Michael C. Rea (ed.), Arguing About Metaphysics, Routledge. pp. 239. 2009.