Inquiry into the Human Mind: On the Principles of Common Sense - Hardcover

Reid, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226709280 ISBN 13: 9780226709284

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1970

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This edition will be a tremendously helpful tool for all intellectual historians in investigating the historical influence of Thomas Reid. This edition of the Inquiry is a model of careful scholarship. A crack editing job.

About the Author

Derek R. Brookes is the editor of Thomas Reid's An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (Edinburgh University Press, 1997). He has a PhD in philosophy from the Australian National University. Knud Haakonssen was Professor of History at the University of Sussex and is now a member of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala. His books include The Science of a Legislator (Cambridge University Press, 1981), Natural Law and Moral Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and editions of Hume, Hutcheson, Reid and Smith. He is General Editor of the Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226709280
• ISBN 13: 9780226709284
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332
• Editor: Duggan T.J.