Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-81270-2 - The Cambridge Companion to: Thomas Reid Edited by Terence Cuneo and Rene´ van Woudenberg Frontmatter More information the cambridge companion to THOMAS REID Each volume of this series of companions to major philoso- phers contains specially commissioned essays by an inter- national team of scholars, together with a substantial bibli- ography, and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimi- dation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Widely acknowledged as the principal architect of Scot- tish common sense philosophy, Thomas Reid is increasingly recognized today as one of the finest philosophers of the 18th century. Combining a sophisticated response to the skepti- cal and idealist views of his day with a robust realism about mind, world, and value, Reid’s thought stands as an impor- tant alternative to Humean skepticism, Kantian idealism, and Cartesian rationalism. This volume is the first compre- hensive overview of Reid’s output and covers not only his philosophy in detail but also his scientific work and his ex- tensive historical influence. New readers will find this the most convenient and ac- cessible guide to Reid currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Reid. 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He has published extensively in medieval philosophy and the history of Scottish philosophy. His books include The Circle of John Mair: Logic and Logicians in Pre-Reformation Scotland (1994), The Shadow of Scotus: Philosophy and Faith in Pre-Reformation Scotland (1999), and The Scottish Enlightenment: The Historical Age of the Histori- cal Nation (2002). He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment (2003). C. A. J. COADY is an ARC Senior Research Fellow and the Deputy Director of the ARC Special Research Centre for Applied Philoso- phy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has published numerous articles in epistemology, philosophy of lan- guage, philosophy of mind, ethics, and political philosophy. He is the author of Testimony: A Philosophical Study (1992) and Morality and Political Violence (forthcoming). TERENCE CUNEO is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College, Michigan. The author of several articles on Reid’s moral philosophy and in contemporary metaethics, he is also the editor of Religion in the Liberal Polity (forthcoming). LORNE FALKENSTEIN is Professor of Philosophy at the Univer- sity of Western Ontario. He has published widely in the history of early modern philosophy and is the author of Kant’s Intuitionism: A Commentary on the Transcendental Aesthetic (1995). ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-81270-2 - The Cambridge Companion to: Thomas Reid Edited by Terence Cuneo and Rene´ van Woudenberg Frontmatter More information x Contributors JOHN GRECO is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham Uni- versity, New York. In addition to having published numerous arti- cles in epistemology, he is the author of Putting Skeptics in Their Place (2000) and the editor of Reading Sosa (forthcoming) and the coeditor (with Ernest Sosa) of The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology (1999).