Thomas Reid on mind, knowledge, and value:

The essays in this volume tell part of the story about Reid's significance in his time and ours. They represent three broad themes in his philosophy: mind, knowledge, and value. The essays present Reid's philosophy of developing agents in a rich world of objects and values - agents with in...

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Other Authors: Copenhaver, Rebecca 1971- (Editor), Buras, Todd (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2015
Edition:First edition
Series:Mind Association occasional series
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:The essays in this volume tell part of the story about Reid's significance in his time and ours. They represent three broad themes in his philosophy: mind, knowledge, and value. The essays present Reid's philosophy of developing agents in a rich world of objects and values - agents with intellectual and active powers whose regularity is productive. Though such agents are equipped at first with rudimentary abilities, those abilities are responsive. Our powers consist in a fundamental and ongoing engagement with a world that calls on us to be flexible, sensitive, astute, and, ultimately, practical
ISBN:9780191798047
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198733676.001.0001

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