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Thomas Reid

1710 - 1796

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Thomas Reid (; 7 May (O.S. 26 April) 1710 – 7 October 1796) was a religiously trained Scottish philosopher best known for his philosophical method, his theory of perception, and its wide implications on epistemology, and as the developer and defender of an agent-causal theory of free will. He also focused extensively on ethics, theory of action, language and philosophy of mind. He was the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense and played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment. In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Reid is the 173rd most popular philosopher (up from 606th in 2019), the 314th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,248th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Thomas Reid ranks 173 out of 1,267. Before him are Ferdinand Tönnies, Adi Shankara, Ernst Cassirer, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Xun Kuang, and Jakob Böhme. After him are Mikhail Bakhtin, Posidonius, Marquis de Condorcet, Hippias, Jean Buridan, and Ram Mohan Roy.

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Among people born in 1710, Thomas Reid ranks 4. Before him are Louis XV of France, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, and Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden. After him are Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Muhammad bin Saud, András Hadik, Domenico Alberti, Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, Mohammed ben Abdallah, Thomas Arne, and Carl Alexander Clerck. Among people deceased in 1796, Thomas Reid ranks 2. Before him is Catherine the Great. After him are Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia, Robert Burns, Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, James Macpherson, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Samuel Huntington, Pyotr Rumyantsev, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, and Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Reid ranks 314 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Newcomen (1663), Louise, Princess Royal (1867), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881), Anne Brontë (1820), and William Golding (1911). After him are Roger Waters (1943), Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901), Robert Shaw (1927), Kate Bush (1958), Charlotte, Princess Royal (1766), and Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Reid ranks 14. Before him are Jeremy Bentham (1748), William of Ockham (1285), Joseph Priestley (1733), John Wycliffe (1324), Duns Scotus (1265), and John Venn (1834). After him are Pelagius (360), Thomas Carlyle (1795), William Godwin (1756), Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855), G. E. Moore (1873), and A. S. Neill (1883).

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