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CHAPTER I
Boyhood and Ancestry: Strachan and the Valley of the Dee, 1710-1722 9
CHAPTER II
At Marischal College, 1722-1737 18
CHAPTER III
New Machar and David Hume, 1737-1751 30
CHAPTER IV
Old Aberdeen: A Regent in King’s College, 1751-1764 43
CHAPTER V
Universal Scepticism versus Inspired Common Sense: An ‘Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense,’ 1764 56
CHAPTER VI
Glasgow College: The Professor of Moral Philosophy, 1764-1780 72
CHAPTER VII
In Philosophical Retirement: Authorship in Old Age, 1780-1795 103
CHAPTER VIII
Inspired Common Sense and Causation: Active or Moral Power in Man 118
CHAPTER IX
The End, 1796 126
CHAPTER X
Retrospective and Critical 133
CHAPTER XI
Reid in the Nineteenth Century: Development of the Common Sense Philosophy: Reid in France: Reid and Hamilton: Reid and Scoto-Hegelian Idealism: Ethical or Theistic Final Faith 144

THOMAS REID

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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