Volume
1: Thomas Reid on the Animate Creation: Papers Relating to the Life Sciences
Volume 2: An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles
of Common Sense
Volume 3: Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
Volume 4: The Correspondence of Thomas Reid
Volume 5: Thomas Reid on Logic, Rhetoric and the Fine Arts
Volume 6: Essays on the Active Powers of Man
Volume 7: Practical Ethics
Volume 8: Reid on Society and Politics
Volume 9: Reid on Mathematics and Natural Philosophy
Volume 10:
Reid
and the University
To order the Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid
Volume 1: Thomas Reid on the Animate Creation: Papers Relating to the Life Sciences, edited by Paul Wood. 1995. ISBN: 0 7486 0459 6 Hardback £45.
This volume shows Reid as an original and powerful contributor to the life sciences of the Enlightenment by bringing together for the first time a significant number of manuscript papers on natural history, physiology and materialist metaphysics. Central to the volume is the recreation of Reid's comprehensive criticism of materialism.
Volume 2: An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense, edited by Derek Brookes. 1997. ISBN: 07486 0722 6 Hardback £55. 2000. ISBN: 0 7486 1371 4 Paperback £16.95.
The Inquiry is a philosophical classic and a delight to read, yet it has never received the edition that it deserves. This new edition provides a critically established text and includes the fine exchange between David Hume and Reid as well as much other, hitherto unpublished, material relating to the Inquiry.
Volume 3: Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, text edited by Derek Brookes; annotations by Derek Brookes and Knud Haakonssen; introduction by Knud Haakonssen. 2002. ISBN: 0 7468 1189 4.
This and the companion volume concerning the Active Powers (see volume 6) constitute the systematic presentation of his philosophy which Reid wrote at the end of his life. The volume also includes Reid's manuscripts concerning "the nature and duration of the soul."
Volume 4: The Correspondence of Thomas Reid, edited by Paul Wood. Due end of 2002.
This volume contains all of the known 131 letters from Reid, along with hitherto unpublished letter drafts. Almost half of these letters appear for the first time, and the letters published in corrupt versions in the Hamilton edition of Reid's works have (where possible) been reedited from the original manuscripts. The correspondence sheds light on the full range of Reid's mathematical, scientific and philosophical pursuits, and illuminates the details of his personal life and career.
Volume 5: Thomas Reid on Logic, Rhetoric and the Fine Arts, edited by Alexander Broadie. Expected 2004.
As well as his daily public lectures in Glasgow on natural theology, ethics, natural jurisprudence and pneumatology, Reid gave lectures to an advanced class thrice weekly on the Culture of the Mind. Under this latter heading he taught logic, rhetoric and the fine arts. This volume will include as much of these manuscript lectures and associated manuscripts as can be established. In addition, the volume contains Reid's own version of 'A brief account of Aristotle's logic, with remarks', a piece significantly changed by Hamilton in his edition.
Volume 6: Essays on the Active Powers of Man, edited by Knud Haakonssen. Expected 2005.
This is the second part of Reid's late magnum opus (cf. vol. 3 above). In addition to the published text, the volume will contain a significant selection of the lectures on pneumatology from which Reid composed both volumes of the Essays.
Volume 7: Practical Ethics, edited by Knud Haakonssen. Expected 2005.
The volume of this title published by Princeton University Press in 1990 is now out of print. The Edinburgh Edition will add new manuscripts and be revised in editorial apparatus, but the focus of the volume will remain the same.
Volume 8: Reid on Society and Politics, edited by Knud Haakonssen and Paul Wood. Expected 2006.
Reid's manuscript writings cover a surprising range of topics in political and economic theory, as well as contemporary political and social issues. The volume will include both lecture material and learned papers. With the exception of the essay on the utopian system, none of this material has been published before.
Volume 9: Reid on Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, edited by Paul Wood. Expected 2006.
Throughout his life, Reid pursued a broad range of inquiries in mathematics and the physical sciences. This volume collects together for the first time his most important unpublished papers on Euclidean geometry, Newtonianism, astronomy, optics, electricity and chemistry, as well as the full manuscript version of his initial publication, 'An Essay on Quantity'. The manuscripts included here illustrate Reid's role as one of the most prominent exponents of Newtonian science in the Scottish Enlightenment.
Volume 10: Reid and the University, edited by Alexander Broadie and Paul Wood. Expected 2007.
Reid was a leading figure in both of the universities he served and his activity in and thoughts about the university resulted in several writing of significance. This volume will contain the Philosophical Orations which Reid gave for the graduating classes in Aberdeen; the magisterial "Statistical Account of the University of Glasgow", and several manuscripts relating to curriculum reforms in which Reid was involved.
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Updated 27 May 2002