Thomas Reid: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Anatomy of the Self

Download or read book Thomas Reid: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Anatomy of the Self written by R.D. Gallie and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-10-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies Reid's moral philosophy and his aesthetics partly by way of an exposition and appraisal of his anatomy of the self, i.e. his division of the mind in terms of its powers and the assignment of the many principles of action to their appropriate levels. A pervasive topic is the consideration of the appropriateness of deterministic computational cognitive science models of Reid's accounts of powers introduced by John Smith III and extensively employed by Keith Lehrer in his important study of Reid's philosophy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR