Thomas Reid on Religion (Library of Scottish Philosophy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845409280 ISBN 13: 9781845409289

Publisher: Imprint Academic, 2017

Synopsis

Thomas Reid was one of the greatest thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment. In his own time he was seen as the most able opponent of the scepticism of David Hume and the architect of 'Common Sense' philosophy. His ideas were immensely influential both in his native Scotland and abroad, and the last forty years have seen a marked revival of interest in his work. Reid published very little about religion and his notes from the lectures on natural theology that he regularly gave have not survived. This volume a companion to Thomas Reid: Selected Philosophical Writings (Imprint Academic, 2012) makes available material from Reid's autograph manuscripts, housed in the University of Aberdeen Library, and student notes of Reid s lectures, edited from original manuscripts in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow. It includes an introductory essay by Nicholas Wolterstorff, a leading philosopher of religion and interpreter of Reid.

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Review:

"Foster has brought to light, in a much more satisfactory form than hitherto, this essential component of Reid's thought."

--Nicholas Wolterstorff "Introduction "

"After a century and a half of neglect, Thomas Reid is now recognised as one of the great philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment. To date, however, our sources on his thinking about religion have been partial, fragmentary and inadequately documented. James Foster deserves praise and thanks for his careful work in assembling and editing the fruits of his research on several sets of student notes and material in Reid's own hand. The book marks a highlight in what has already proved to be an invaluable series for bringing the thought of Scottish philosophers to a broad readership." --John Haldane, University of St Andrews, Scotland

About the Author:

James Foster is a Fulbright Scholar in the Research Institute for Irish-Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen.

Nicholas Wolterstorff is an American philosopher. A prolific writer with wide-ranging philosophical and theological interests, he has written books on aesthetics, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and philosophy of education. In Faith and Rationality, Wolterstorff, Alvin Plantinga, and William Alston developed and expanded upon a view of religious epistemology that has come to be known as Reformed epistemology. He also helped to establish the journal Faith and Philosophy and the Society of Christian Philosophers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Imprint Academic
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1845409280
• ISBN 13: 9781845409289
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220
• Editor: Foster James J.S.