Thomas Reid

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Thomas Reid

• Philosophy 22
• Spring, 2009
• G. J. Mattey

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Vital Statistics

• Born, 1710, Strachan, Scotland
• Died, 1796, Glasgow
• Married
• Nine children
• Minister
• Professor at Kings College and Glasgow College

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Important Events

• 1722, entered Marischal College, Aberdeen
• 1731, completed doctorate in theology
• 1733-36, worked as librarian at Marischal College
• 1736, visited London, Oxford and Cambridge
• 1736, appointed minister at New Machar
• 1740, married his cousin, Elizabeth Reid

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Important Events (cont.)?

• 1748, published An Essay on Quantity Occasioned
  by Reading a Treatise in which Simple and
  Compound Ratios are Applied to Virtue and Merit
• 1751, appointed Professor of Philosophy at Kings
  College, Aberdeen
• Circa 1752, founded the Aberdeen Philosophical
  Society (the Wise Club)?
• 1764, published An Inquiry into the Human Mind on
  the Principles of Common Sense

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Important Events (cont.)?

• 1764, appointed Chair of Moral Philosophy at the
  University of Glasgow
• 1781, retired from teaching
• 1785, published Essays on the Intellectual Powers
  of Man
• 1788, published Essays on the Active Powers of
  the Human Mind
• 1796, died after a violent disorder