All too often it is said that common-sense philosophers fail to justify their appeal to common sense as a philosophical standard, and that they merely repeat one another in the glorification of philosophical trivialities. This book challenges these and other widespread assumptions about common-sense philosophers and provides a major reassessment of an influential segment of the history of ideas.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Bibliography: p. [209]-220
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 192
- General Note
- Includes index Includes text of a speech given by Thomas Reid to the Literary Society of Glasgow, Feb. 10, 1769, and currently held in the Birkwood Collection (Item 2/III/7, Ms. 2131) of King's College, University of Aberdeen Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0773510036 9780773563988
- LCCN
- B1959.B74
- LCCN Item number
- M37 1982eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTY
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (vi, 227 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00200400 (OCoLC)243500638 (CaOOCEL)400862
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- I: General Introduction 8
- II: Claude Buffier 18
- 1. The Context of Buffier's Doctrine of Common Sense 18
- 2. The Problem of Asserting the Core of Buffier's Philosophy of Common Sense 22
- 3. The Problem of Defining Common Sense as Buffier Sees It 23
- 4. What Common Sense Is Not 28
- 5. What Common Sense Is 39
- 6. Buffier's Justification of the Appeal to Common Sense 50
- 7. Conclusion 72
- III: Thomas Reid 80
- 1. Difficulties in Assessing the Core of Reid's Doctrine 80
- 2. Reid's Methodological Rules Concerning the Intellectual Powers of Man 86
- 3. The Importance of Reid's Decision to Elucidate the Meaning of Common Sense in His "Essay on Judgment" 89
- 4. Reid's Elucidation of the Proper Meaning of Common Sense 95
- 5. Reid's Analysis of Philosophical Objections to the Common Meaning of Common Sense 101
- 6. Reid's Analysis of the Problem of First Principles 104
- 7. Reid's Alternative Model in the Treatment of Self-evident Propositions 107
- 8. The Background of Reid's Alternative 114
- 9. Reid's Codification of Self-evident Propositions 118
- 10. Reid's Justification of the Appeal to Common Sense 126
- 11. Reid's Understanding of Newton's Methodological Rules 131
- 12. Reid's Understanding of Francis Bacon's Methodological Advice 138
- 13. The Impact of Reid's Method on His General Doctrine of First Principles 147
- 14. Conclusion 150
- IV: General Conclusion 160
- 1. The Different Views of Buffier and Reid on Introspection 163
- 2. The Views of Buffier and Reid on the Most Important Features of the Human Mind 166
- 3. The Different Common-Sense Doctrines of Buffier and Reid 171
- 4. Two Counterexamples to the Caricatures of Common-Sense Doctrines 176
- Appendix: Thomas Reid's Curâ Primâ on Common Sense 186
- Bibliography 216
- Index 228
- A 228
- B 228
- C 229
- D 229
- E 230
- F 230
- G 230
- H 230
- I 230
- J 231
- K 231
- L 231
- M 231
- N 231
- O 232
- P 232
- R 233
- S 233
- T 234
- U 234
- V 234
- W 234
- Y 234
- Z 234
