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Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher and academic (d. 1796)

Thomas Reid was a religiously trained Scottish philosopher best known for his philosophical method, his theory of perception, and its wide implications on epistemology, and as the developer and defender of an agent-causal theory of free will. He also focused extensively on ethics, theory of action, language and philosophy of mind.

26 April 1710

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