Thomas Reid
1710
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1796
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Great Britain
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University of Aberdeen
occupation: philosopher, librarian, mathematician, writer, university teacher
award received: Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
influenced by: David Hume, Cicero
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 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". Source: Wikipedia (en)
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