Scottish philosopher (1710-1796). Reid was the founder of the ‘Common Sense’ school of Scottish philosophy, which set out to refute the varieties of philosophical scepticism defended by Hume and Berkeley, by proposing a view in which knowledge is based on human intuitions or ‘common sense’. Reid was Professor at Glasgow University from 1764-1780. His most important works were his Enquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764), Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785), and Essays on the Active Powers of Man (1788).
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