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List of works
Cousin, V. (1828) Cours de l’histoire de la philosophie moderne, Paris: Pichon & Didier, 3 vols; trans. O.W. Wight Course of the History of Modern Philosophy, New York: Appleton 1852.
(Cousin’s use of the word ‘absolute’ has misled numerous commentators into characterizing him as an absolute idealist.)
Cousin, V. (1853) Du vrai, du beau, du bien, Paris: Didier; trans. O.W. Wight The True, the Beautiful and the Good, New York: Appleton, 1854.
(Shortened version of Cousin’s lectures and a nineteenth-century translation of the 3rd edition.)
Jouffroy, T. (1838) Philosophical Miscellanies, Boston, MA: Hilliard, Gray.
Jouffroy, T. (1840) Introduction to Ethics, Including a Critical Survey of Moral Systems, trans. W.H. Channing, Boston, MA: Hilliard, Gray.
(This book was a standard text for ethics courses in American universities during the long dominance of Reid’s philosophy in America.)
Mahan, A. (1881) A Critical History of Philosophy, London: Elliot Stock.
McCosh, J. (1867) Intuitions of the Mind, revised edn, New York: Carter.
Reid, T. (1785) Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, ed. B. Brody, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1969.
(The best edition since it avoids all of Hamilton’s footnotes which are systematically misleading.)
Reid, T. (1788) Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind, ed. B. Brody, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1969.
(The best edition since it avoids all of Hamilton’s footnotes which are systematically misleading.)
Reid, T. (1872) Collected Works, ed. W. Hamilton, Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart, 7th edn.
(Hamilton’s footnotes are systematically misleading.)
Stewart, D. (1826) Esquisses de philosophie morale (Outline of moral philosophy), trans. T. Jouffroy, Paris: Johanneau.
Stewart, D. (1854–60) Collected Works, ed. W. Hamilton, Edinburgh: Constable.
(Text is good, but the footnotes should be avoided. Strangely, Hamilton never had a clear understanding of the common sense tradition.)
Wayland, F. (1835) The Elements of Moral Science, ed. J.L. Blau, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963.
References and further reading
Barker, S.F. and Beauchamp, T.C. (1976) Thomas Reid: Critical Interpretations, Philadelphia, PA: Monograph Series.
(Analyses and clarifies numerous aspects of Reid’s philosophy.)
Grave, S.A. (1960) The Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
(Presents a flawed interpretation of Reid’s views on sensation and perception, but helpfully promoted the resurgence of the new interest in the Common Sense School.)
Lehrer, Keith (1989) Thomas Reid, London: Routledge.
(Claims Reid’s major contribution is his combining nativism, psychology and epistemology.)
Madden, E.H. (1968) Civil Disobedience and Moral Law, Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.
Madden, E.H. (1986) ‘Stewart’s Enrichment of the Common Sense Tradition’, History of Philosophy Quarterly 3 (1): 45–63.
Manns, J.W. (1993) Reid and his French Disciples, Leyden: Brill.
Rowe, W.L. (1991) Thomas Reid on Freedom and Morality, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
(Constitutes the most thorough examination of Reid’s agency theory.)
Stewart, D. (1803) Account of the Life and Writings of Thomas Reid, Edinburgh, William Creech.
Madden, Edward H.. Bibliography. Common Sense School, 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-DB017-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/common-sense-school/v-1/bibliography/common-sense-school-bib.
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