Memorials & monuments · Scottish Highlands
Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid — a memorial in scotland-highlands, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 15 min–45 min
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
About
Thomas Reid is a memorial located in scotland-highlands, United Kingdom. Sourced from OpenStreetMap (ODbL licence); see local listings for visitor information, opening hours and admission details.
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From the Wikipedia article
Thomas Reid (; 7 May (O.S. 26 April) 1710 – 7 October 1796) was a religiously trained Scottish philosopher best known for his philosophical method, his theory of perception, and its wide implications on epistemology, and as the developer and defender of an agent-causal theory of free will. He also focused extensively on ethics, theory of action, language and philosophy of mind. He was the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense and played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment. In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. A contemporary of David Hume, Reid was also "Hume's earliest and fiercest critic". Reid is known for his book Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind (1788), in which he discusses the active behavioral nature of the human mind, including discourses about free will, principles of action and morals.
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Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of sensus communis) is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry. He disagreed with Hume, who asserted that we can never know what an external world consists of as our knowledge is limited to the ideas in the mind, and George Berkeley, who asserted that the external world is instead ideas in the mind. By contrast, Reid claimed that the foundations upon which our sensus communis are built justify our belief that there is an external world. In his day and for some years into the 19th century, he was regarded as more important than Hume. He advocated direct realism, or common sense realism, and…
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- Coordinates
- 57.1640, -2.1015
- District
- Aberdeen City
- Postcode
- AB24 3SW
- Parliamentary constituency
- Aberdeen North
- Official site
- plato.stanford.edu
Sources
- osm: node/9071413627 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Thomas Reid (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Thomas Reid?
- Thomas Reid is in the Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom (postcode AB24 3SW).
- Is Thomas Reid free to visit?
- Yes, Thomas Reid is free to enter.
- How do I get to Thomas Reid?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode AB24 3SW. It sits within the Aberdeen North parliamentary constituency.