Problems from Reid

Synopsis

A Contemporary Of Hume, Thomas Reid Is Especially Known Today For His Opposition To Skepticism And The Way Of Ideas (the Notion That What The Mind Perceives Is Not Objective Reality, But Simply An Internal Image). Reid Was One Of The First To Question This View, Which Is Still Prevalent Today, And Pointed Out Some Of The Negative Consequences To Which It Leads. For The Growing Recognition About These And Other Contributions In Epistemology, Theory Of Action, And Moral Theory, Reid Has Increasingly Attracted Attention In Anglo-american Philosophy Over The Last Twenty Years-- Introduction -- 1. Sensation And Perception -- 2. Reid's Nativism -- A. Reid's Nativism -- 3. Direct Realism Versus The Way Of Ideas -- 4. Primary And Secondary Qualities -- 5. Acquired Perception -- 6. The Geometry Of Visibles -- 7. Erect And Inverted Vision -- 8. Molyneux's Question -- 9. Memory And Personal Identity -- 10. Conception And Its Objects -- 11. Epistemology 1: First Principles -- 12. Epistemology 2: Reid's Response To The Skeptic -- 13. Epistemology 3: Lehrer's Reid -- 14. 14: Theory Of Action 1: Causation, Action, And Volition -- 15. Theory Of Action 2: Determinism, Freedom, And Agency -- 16. Reid Versus Hume On Morals -- Appendices. James Van Cleve. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 515-532) And Index.