This volume offers a fresh view of the work of Thomas Reid, and its significance in his time and ours. A team of leading experts address three broad themes in Reid's philosophy: mind, knowledge, and value. They reveal the vitality of Reid's work, and explore the ways in which current philosophers are engaging with his ideas.

• Introduction


• 1: Todd Buras: Thomas Reid's Experimentum Crucis


• 2: Chris Lindsay: Reid on Instinctive Exertions and the Spatial Contents of Sensations


• 3: Marina Folescu: Perceptual and Imaginative Conception: The Distinction that Reid Missed


• 4: James van Cleve: Four Questions about Acquired Perception


• 5: Lucas Thorpe: Seeing White and Wrong: Reid on the Role of Sensation in Perception


• 6: Rebecca Copenhaver: Thomas Reid on Aesthetic Perception


• 7: Rachel Zuckert: Thomas Reid's Expressivist Aesthetics


• 8: Laurent Jaffro: Reid on Aesthetic Response and the Perception of Beauty


• 9: Patrick Rysiew: Pragmatism and Reid's 'Third Way'


• 10: Angelique Thebert: The Defense of the First Principles of Common Sense in Reid's Epistemology: A New Use for Track-Record Arguments


• 11: Gregory Poore: Theism, Coherence and Justification in Reid's Epistemology


• 12: Terence Cuneo: Does Reid have Anything to Say to (the New) Hume?


• 13: Lewis Powell and Gideon Yaffe: Reid on Favors, Injuries and the Natural Virtues of Justice

Rebecca Copenhaver is Professor of Philosophy at Lewis & Clark College, where she has taught since 2001. Her research interests are in early modern philosophy, Thomas Reid, and philosophy of mind. Her work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Res Philosophica, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Quarterly, History of Philosophy Quarterly, The Journal of the History of Philosophy, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, and The Oxford Handbook on British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century. She is co-author with Brian P. Copenhaver of From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950 (University of Toronto Press, 2012).
Todd Buras is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University, where he has taught since 2003. His research has appeared in the Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Quarterly, American Philosophical Quarterly, and the Journal of the History of Philosophy.
Support for work on this paper was provided by Bogaziç i BAP project 5706 (Realism from Kant and Reid to Sellars, Williamson and Mcdowell) and Tubitak Project 114K348 (Concepts and Beliefs: From Perception to Action).