What’s so good about Reid?
Galen Strawson, 22 February 1990
Thomas Reid’s ‘Inquiry’: The Geometry of Visibles and the Case for Realism
by Norman Daniels.
Stanford, 160 pp., £25, May 1989,0 8047 1504 1 Show More
by Norman Daniels.
Stanford, 160 pp., £25, May 1989,
Thomas Reid and the ‘Way of Ideas’
by Roger Gallie.
Reidel, 287 pp., £42, July 1989,0 7923 0390 3 Show More
by Roger Gallie.
Reidel, 287 pp., £42, July 1989,
Philosophy and Science in the Scottish Enlightenment
edited by Peter Jones.
John Donald, 230 pp., £20, October 1989,0 85976 225 4 Show More
edited by Peter Jones.
John Donald, 230 pp., £20, October 1989,
Studies in the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment
edited by M.A. Stewart.
Oxford, 328 pp., £37.50, January 1990,0 19 824967 5 Show More
edited by M.A. Stewart.
Oxford, 328 pp., £37.50, January 1990,
“... child, and although it is not a historical book Forguson includes chapters on G.E. Moore and Reid. Roger Gallie’s book Thomas Reid and the ‘Way of Ideas’ rambles most unhelpfully at times, and would have benefited considerably from the use of a spelling checker. Nevertheless it too may be saluted in passing as another sign of the increasing interest ... ”
