What’s so good about Reid?
Galen Strawson, 22 February 1990
Thomas Reid’s ‘Inquiry’: The Geometry of Visibles and the Case for Realism
by Norman Daniels.
Stanford, 160 pp., £25, May 1989,0 8047 1504 1 Show More
by Norman Daniels.
Stanford, 160 pp., £25, May 1989,
Thomas Reid and the ‘Way of Ideas’
by Roger Gallie.
Reidel, 287 pp., £42, July 1989,0 7923 0390 3 Show More
by Roger Gallie.
Reidel, 287 pp., £42, July 1989,
Philosophy and Science in the Scottish Enlightenment
edited by Peter Jones.
John Donald, 230 pp., £20, October 1989,0 85976 225 4 Show More
edited by Peter Jones.
John Donald, 230 pp., £20, October 1989,
Studies in the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment
edited by M.A. Stewart.
Oxford, 328 pp., £37.50, January 1990,0 19 824967 5 Show More
edited by M.A. Stewart.
Oxford, 328 pp., £37.50, January 1990,
“... in England, being particularly admired by C.S. Peirce, and more recently by Roderick Chisholm and Keith Lehrer. G.E. Moore read him, learnt from him, quoted him in his early work and then forgot the debt, while transmitting some of his ideas to Wittgenstein. Gareth Evans was a forceful advocate of his views. But today he is known to most analytical ... ”
