Thomas Reid (1710 to 1796) was a Scottish philosopher, the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense and a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. The son of a minister, he was born at Strachan in Aberdeenshire, served for years as a Church of Scotland minister, and then held professorships at King's College, Aberdeen, and at Glasgow, where he succeeded Adam Smith in the chair of moral philosophy. He is best known for his direct theory of perception and for his criticism of the way of ideas that led from Locke to Hume, set out in An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764). His Essays on the Active Powers (1788) defend an agent-causal account of free will, and in 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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the son of Lewis Reid
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was a Scottish philosopher best known for his philosophical method, his theory of perception, and its wide implications on epistemology
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he was given a professorship at King's College, Aberdeen, in 1752
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He began his career as a minister of the Church of Scotland
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best known for his philosophical method, his theory of perception, and its wide implications on epistemology
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best known for his philosophical method, his theory of perception, and its wide implications on epistemology
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