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Reid on Ethics

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Sabine Roeser

    1. Department of Philosophy, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Philosophers in Depth (PID)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Thomas Reid’s Moral Philosophy

    1. Introduction: Thomas Reid’s Moral Philosophy

      • Sabine Roeser
      Pages 1-22

  3. Thomas Reid’s Moral Epistemology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Reid, the Moral Faculty, and First Principles

      • Keith Lehrer
      Pages 25-45

    3. Reid on Natural Signs, Taste and Moral Perception

      • Esther R. Kroeker
      Pages 46-66

    4. Thomas Reid on Moral Disagreement

      • William C. Davis
      Pages 67-87

  4. The Role of Emotions in Reid’s Ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Reid Making Sense of Moral Sense

      • Alexander Broadie
      Pages 91-102

    3. Reid and Modern Theories of Emotions

      • Marion Ledwig
      Pages 103-120

  6. Reid’s Views on Practical Ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
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    2. Reid on Justice

      • Nicholas Wolterstorff
      Pages 187-203

    3. Reid on Hume on Justice

      • James A. Harris
      Pages 204-222

    4. The Significance of Reid’s Practical Ethics

      • Gordon Graham
      Pages 223-237

    5. Duty, Goodness, and God in Thomas Reid’s Moral Philosophy

      • Terence Cuneo
      Pages 238-257

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 258-272
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About this book

This is the first edited collection to bring together classic pieces and new work by leading scholars of Thomas Reid. The contributors explore key elements of Reid's ideas about moral epistemology, moral emotions, moral agency and practical ethics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

    Sabine Roeser

About the editor

ALEXANDER BROADIE is Professor of Logic and Rhetoric, University of Glasgow (a chair once occupied by Adam Smith) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, UK TERENCE CUNEO is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Vermont, USA WILLIAM C. DAVIS is a Professor of Philosophy and the Chair of the Philosophy Department, Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, Georgia, USA GORDON GRAHAM is Henry Luce III Professor of Philosophy and the Arts, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Director of the Princeton Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy, USA JAMES HARRIS teaches philosophy at University of St Andrews, UK ESTHER R. KROEKER is a Research Fellow, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium MARION LEDWIG is currently visiting assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA KEITH LEHRER holds the following positions: Regents Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona, Research Professor at University of Miami, and Honorary Professor at University of Graz DOUGLAS MCDERMID is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada RENÉ VAN WOUDENBERG has the chair in Metaphysics and Epistemology, Department of Philosophy of VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands NICHOLAS WOLTERSTORFF is Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University and Senior Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, USA GIDEON YAFFE is Associate Professor of Philosophy andLaw at the University of Southern California, USA

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