Thomas Reid

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

Born on the same birth day (26 April): John James Audubon • Jordana Brewster • Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily • Marianne Jean-Baptiste • Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs • Naoki Tanaka (comedian) • Natrone Means • Peter II of Portugal • Richard Bradshaw (conductor) • Toomas Tõniste

Born in the same month (April 1710): Caffarelli (castrato) • Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan • James Ferguson (Scottish astronomer) • Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée • William Cullen