The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid

General Editor: Knud Haakonssen

Edinburgh University Press//Pennsylvania State University Press

The following two volumes have recently been published:

Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
Edited by Derek R. Brookes and Knud Haakonssen
ISBN: 0 7486 1189 4
What is known as Reid’s two late works, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785) and Essays on the Active Powers of Man (1788), were planned as one large work. Only while the first part was in press did Reid decide for practical reasons to divide the work. This first part is presented here, carefully checked against the existing manuscripts and the only life-time edition, and supplemented with hitherto unpublished manuscripts on the “nature and duration of the soul”, a topic not developed in Reid’s published work. The second part, The Active Powers, will contain further manuscript material related to the two Essays. The current volume has a brief introduction explaining the provenance of the work, as well as annotations to the text and a detailed index.

The Correspondence of Thomas Reid
Edited by Paul Wood
ISBN: 0 7486 1163 0
The Correspondence of Thomas Reid collects together for the first time all of the 131 known letters to and from Reid (including fifty-eight that are hitherto unpublished) in a fully annotated and uniformly edited form. The letters illuminate virtually every aspect of Reid’s life and career and, in some instances, provide us with invaluable evidence regarding activities that are otherwise undocumented in his manuscripts or published works. Through his correspondence we can trace his relations with contemporaries like David Hume and his colleagues at both King’s College, Aberdeen, and the University of Glasgow, as well as his engagement with some of the most controversial philosophical, scientific and political issues of his day. Consequently, the letters brought together in this volume serve as the starting point for understanding Reid and his place in the Enlightenment.