ABSTRACT

This book bears witness to the current reawakening of interest in Reid's philosophy. It first examines Reid's negative attack on the Way of Ideas, and finds him to be a devastating critic of his predecessors. Turning to the positive part of Reid's programme, the author then develops a fresh interpretation of Reid as an anticipator of present-day 'reliabilism'.
Throughout the book, Reid is presented as a powerful thinker with much to say to philosophers in the twenty-first century. The book will be of interest not only to Reid scholars and historians of philosophy, but also to specialists and students in contemporary epistemology.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|13 pages

Kinds of sceptic

chapter 2|12 pages

The attack on Cartesian foundationalism

chapter 3|17 pages

The first principles of contingent truths

chapter 5|26 pages

The structure of Reid’s reliabilism

chapter 6|15 pages

The slippery slope

chapter 9|13 pages

The Truth Claim

chapter 10|26 pages

Reid’s theism reconsidered