Selected Bibliography:
Thomas Reid (1710-1796)

By Martino Squillante,
Università degli Studi di Milano

Last revised 14 November 2000

Bibliographies

• T. E. Jessop, A Bibliography of David Hume and of Scottish Philosophy from Francis Hutcheson to Lord Balfour (London [and Hull]: A. Brown & Sons Ltd., 1938), 163-67.
• N. Mikhalevsky, "Bibliography," in S. F. Barker and T. L. Beauchamp, eds., Thomas Reid: Critical Interpretations (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Philosophical Monographs, 1976), 133-40.
• R. A. Legum, "An Updated Bibliography of Works on the Philosophy of Thomas Reid," The Monist 61, no. 2 (1978): 340-44.
• K. Haakonssen, "Bibliographic Index," in Practical Ethics (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1990), 467-511.
• M. Squillante, "Thomas Reid: An Updated Bibliography," Part I in Reid Studies 1, no. 2 (1988): 71-81; Part II in Reid Studies 2, no. 1 (1998): 57-78.

Editions

• Collected Works

  • K. Lehrer and R. E. Beanblossom, eds., Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merril, 1975). Selection from the 6th ed. of The Works of Thomas Reid edited by W. Hamilton (1863); with an introduction by R. E. Beanblossom.
  • W. Hamilton, ed., The Works of Thomas Reid, D.D., Now Fully Collected, with Selections from His Unpublished Letters. Preface, Notes and Supplementary Dissertations, by Sir W. Hamilton, Bart., [. . .]. Prefixed, Stewart's Account of the Life and Writings of Reid; with Notes by the Editor (Edinburgh: MachLachlan and Stewart & Co.; and London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans [1 vol.; ends abruptly at page 914], 1846).
  • Other Important Editions:
    • 1863, 6th ed. (Edinburgh: MacLachlan and Stewart. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green. [From this edition, in 2 vols.; H. L. Mansel completes Hamilton's Dissertations and adds the Memoranda for Preface and the indexes]).
    • 1880, 8th ed. (Edinburgh: MacLachlan and Stewart. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green).
    • 1895, reprint of 8th ed. (Edinburgh: James Thin; London: Longmans, Green).
    • 1967, reprint of the 1895 edition. (Hildesheim: G. Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung). Reprinted in 1983, it is the scholars' standard edition. With a useful introduction by H. M. Bracken.
    • Hamilton's edition contains the following Reid's works: An Essay on Quantity, 1748; An Inquiry into the Human Mind, 4th ed. 1785; A Brief Account of Aristotle's Logic, 1st ed. 1774; Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, 1st ed. 1785; Essays on the Active Powers of Man, 1st ed. 1788; A Statistical Account of the University of Glasgow, 1799.
  
  

• Individual Works

  • An Essay on Quantity; Occasioned by Reading a Treatise in which Simple and Compound Ratios Are Applied to Virtue and Merit (London: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 45, 1748 [1st ed.]: 505-20).
  • An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (Edinburgh: Printed for A. Millar, London, and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1764, [1st ed.]). More recent editions:
    • Bristol: Thoemmes, 1990. Facsimile reprint of the 4th ed., 1785: London: Printed for T. Cadell, London, and J. Bell and W. Creech, Edinburgh. With an introduction by P. B. Wood.
    • Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1996. Edited by D. R. Brookes; with large references to Reid's unpublished manuscripts.
    
    
  • A Brief Account of Aristotle's Logic. 1st ed. in H. Home, Sketches of the history of man. In two volumes (Edinburgh: Printed for W. Creech, Edinburgh; and for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London, 1774. Vol. II, book III: 168-241).
  • Essays on the intellectual powers of man (Edinburgh: Printed for J. Bell, [. . .] and G. G. J. Robinson, London, 1785, 1st ed.). More recent editions:
    • London: MacMillan & Co. [. . .], 1941. Edited and abridged by A. D. Woozley.
    • Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1969. Edited with an introduction by B. A. Brody. The text used is that contained in vols. II and III of The Works of Thomas Reid (Charlestown, Mass., 1813-15).
    • New York: Garland Pub, 1971. Facsimile reprint of 1st ed., Edinburgh 1785.
    
    
  • Essays on the Active Powers of Man (Edinburgh: Printed for John Bell, [. . .] and G. G. J. & J. Robinson, London, 1788, 1st ed.). More recent editions:
    • Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press, 1969. Edited with an introduction by B. A. Brody. The text used is that contained in vols. III and IV of The Works of Thomas Reid (Charlestown, Mass., 1813-1815).
    • New York & London: Garland Pub, 1977. Facsimile reprint of 1st ed., Edinburgh 1788.
    
    
  • "Observations on the Danger of Political Innovation," Glasgow Courier, 18 December 1794.
  • A Statistical Account of the University of Glasgow, published posthumously in J. Sinclair, ed., The Statistical Account of Scotland [. . .] (Edinburgh: Printed and Sold by William Creech [. . .], 1799), Vol. 21, Appendix 1-50.
  • Review of Joseph Priestley's Hartley's Theory of the Human Mind [. . .] (1775), Monthly Review 53 (1775): 380-390 and 54 (1776): 41-47. Published anonymously.
  
  

Archives

• Aberdeen University Library, Dept. of Special Collections: The Birkwood Collection (MSS. 2131/1-8). The collection comprises over 800 items relating to the writings and teachings of Reid. The manuscripts range from fair copies of papers on specific topics to miscellaneous research notes, abstracts of works read, and mathematical calculations.
• Aberdeen University Library, Dept. of Special Collections: MSS. 3061/1-26. This collection of essays and notes by Thomas Reid was gifted to the Aberdeen University Library in 1980. The papers should be considered in conjunction with the Birkwood Collection, from which they had been detached early this century.
• Some of the manuscripts included in these collections have been published, mostly in recent years.

Published Manuscripts and Lectures

• "Correspondence of Dr. Reid," in the Works of Thomas Reid, D. D. Now Fully Collected, with Selections from His Unpublished Letters. Preface, Notes and Supplementary Dissertations, by Sir W. Hamilton [. . .] (1846 and subsequent editions, cited above).
• "Mss. Papers by Dr. Reid [. . .]," in J. McCosh, The Scottish Philosophy, Biographical, Expository, Critical from Hutcheson to Hamilton (London: MacMillan and Co., 1875), Appendix, art. III, 473-476. Selected passages from five of Reid's manuscripts and observations on other two. Reprinted in 1990 by Thoemmes Antiquarian Books, Bristol.
• W. R. Humphries, ed., Philosophical Orations of Thomas Reid Delivered at Graduation Ceremonies in King's College, Aberdeen, 1753, 1756, 1759, 1762 (Aberdeen: The University Press, 1937 [in Latin]). Translated into English by S. M. L. Darcus and edited by D. D. Todd in Philosophy Research Archives 3 (1977): 916-90; repr. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1989.
• W. R. Humphries, ed., "The Genealogy of the Gregorys," The Scottish Educational Journal 21 (1938): 1032-33 and 1046-48. See Aberdeen University Library, MS. 2814/1/12.
• I. Ross, ed., "Unpublished Letters of Thomas Reid to Lord Kames, 1762-1782," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 7 (1965): 17-65.
• P. Kivy, ed., Thomas Reid's Lectures on Fine Arts (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973).
• D. F. Norton, ed., "Abstract of the Inquiry into the Human Mind upon the Principles of Common Sense," in S. F. Barker and T. L. Beauchamp, eds., Thomas Reid: Critical Interpretations (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Philosophical Monographs, 1976), 125-32.
• R. M. Baird and E. H. Duncan, "Thomas Reid's Criticism of Adam Smith's Theory of the Moral Sentiments," Journal of the History of Ideas 38 (1977): 509-22.
• C. Stewart-Robertson and D. F. Norton, eds., "Thomas Reid on Adam Smith's Theory of Morals," Journal of the History of Ideas 41 (1980): 381-98; and 45 (1984): 309-21.
• E. H. Duncan, ed., Thomas Reid's Lectures on Natural Theology, Transcribed from Student Notes (Washington: University Press of America, 1981).
• D. F. Norton, "Thomas Reid's Cura Prima on Common Sense," in L. Marcil-Lacoste, Claude Buffier and Thomas Reid: Two Common-Sense Philosophers (Kingston: McGill-Queen's, 1982), 187-208.
• W. B. Peach and D. O Thomas, eds., The Correspondence of Richard Price, Vol I: July 1748-March 1778 (Durham, N.C. and Cardiff: Duke Univ. Press and University of Wales Press, 1983). It contains: (a) two drafts from the Birkwood manuscripts (Aberdeen University Library) of a letter from Reid to Price, ca. 1772/3 (pp. 153-54); (b) a letter from Reid to Price, 10 April 1775, and a draft of it from the Birkwood manuscripts (pp. 192-98).
• K. Haakonssen, ed., Practical Ethics, Being Lectures and Papers on Natural Religion, Self-Government, Natural Jurisprudence, and the Law of Nations (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1990).
• C. Stewart-Robertson, ed., "Georgica Animi: A Compendium of Thomas Reid's Lectures on the Culture of the Mind," Rivista di Storia della Filosofia 1 (1990): 113-56.
• P. B. Wood, ed., Thomas Reid on the Animate Creation: Papers Relating to the Life Sciences (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1995).

Selected Translations

• Recherches sur l'entendement humain, d'après les principes du sens commun, par Thomas Reid. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglais (Amsterdam: J. Meyer, 1768). Translation into French of the Inquiry into the Human Mind.
• Untersuchung über den menschlichen Geist nach den Grundsätzen des gemeinen Menschenverstandes (Leipzig: Schwickert, 1782). Translation into German of the 3rd ed. of the Inquiry into the Human Mind (1769).
• Oeuvres complètes de Thomas Reid, chef de l'école écossaise, publiées par M. Th. Jouffroy, avec des fragments de M. Royer-Collard et une introduction de l'éditeur, 6 vols. (Paris, 1828-36). Translation into French of Reid's works.
• Philosophie de Thomas Reid extraite de ses ouvrages, avec une vie de l'auteur, et un essai sur la philosophie écossaise par l'abbé P. H. Mabire (Sér 1. Essais sur les facultés intellectuelles de l'homme. Paris: Perisse frères, 1844. Sér 2. Essais sur les facultes actives de l'homme. Paris: J. Lecoffre, 1846). Translation into French of the Essays on the Intellectual Powers and of the Essays on Active Powers.
• A. Santucci, ed., Ricerca sulla Mente Umana e altri scritti di Thomas Reid (Torino: Utet, 1975). Translation into Italian of the Inquiry into the Human Mind and of part both of the Essays on the Intellectual Powers and of the Essays on the Active Powers. The texts used are those contained in the 6th ed. of the Works of Thomas Reid edited by W. Hamilton (1863). With an introduction by A. Santucci, pp. 9-66. Reprint: Torino: Utet, 1996.
• M. Hempolinsky, ed., Rozwazania o wladzach poznawczych czlowieka/ [by] Thomas Reid; przelozyl oraz wstepem i przypisami opatrzyl Michal Hempolinski (Warsaw: Pa'nstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. Series: Biblioteka klasyków filozofii 118, 1975). Translation into Polish of the Essays on the Intellectual Powers. With an introduction by the translator, M. Hempolinsky, entitled "Thomasa Reida krytyka idealizm subiektywnego z pozycji filozofii zdrowego rozsadku" (pp. ix-xxxvii).
• A. Herrera, ed., Los Principios de la Accion (Madrid: Universidad Complutense, 1996). Translation into Spanish of the Essays on the Active powers.

Criticism

• Journals

  • Reid Studies. First series, 1986-87. Only one issue was published. From Spring 1998 there is a new series of the journal, available on request from the Associate Editor, Department of Philosophy, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, AB24 3UB.
    
    

  • Special Issues of Journals

    • The Monist 61 (April 1978). With contributions by: D. N. Robinson, H. Jensen, J. Immerwahr, J. H. Faurot, K. Lehrer, L. Marcil-Lacoste, M. S. Pritchard, P. Kivy, R. E. Beanblossom, T. Duggan.
    • The Monist 70 (October 1987). With contributions by: A. D. Woozley, A. W. Davenport, J. McGregor, J. Somerville, N. Wolterstorff, R. Stecker, W. L. Rowe, A. R. Greenberg, K. Lehrer.
    • Discipline Filosofiche, Anno VI, Nuova Serie, n. 2 (1997); special issue edited by L. Neri: Thomas Reid: scienza, filosofia e senso comune. With contributions by: P. B. Wood, F. Restaino, C. Giuntini, R. Tassani, L. Neri, D. R. Brookes, R. Gallie, L. Dacome, K. G. Kitagawa, L. Turco, K. Haakonssen.
    
    
  
  

• Major Collections

  • S. F. Barker and T. L. Beauchamp, eds., Thomas Reid: Critical Interpretations (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Philosophical Monographs, 1976). With contributions by: K. Lehrer, B. Brody, P. Vernier, D. A. Tebaldi, N. Daniels, D. N. Robinson, S. Grave, P. D. Cummins, R. C. Sleigh, M. Hooker, J. A. Weinstock, T. Duggan, P. Kivy, D. F. Norton. Fundamental collection of essays on Reid's philosophy which marked the beginning of Reid's renaissance in the Seventies.
  • M. Dalgarno and E. Matthews, eds., The Philosophy of Thomas Reid (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989). It contains several papers from an international conference held at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland), September 1985, to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of the Essays on the Intellectual Powers. The volume is divided into 5 sections, devoted to:
    • Perception (contributions by Y. Michaud, W. P. Alston, V. Chappell, N. Nelkin, A. E. Pitson, A. Ben-Zeev, M. Malherbe)
    • Knowledge and common sense (contributions by K. Lehrer, D. C. Holt, T. J. Sutton, D. Schultess, C. Engel-Tiercelin, C. A. J. Coady)
    • Mind and action (contributions by J. Somerville, R. F. Stalley, J. Haldane)
    • Aesthetics, moral and political philosophy (contributions by P. Kivy, H. Jensen, P. J. Diamond, K. Mackinnon, M. T. Dalgarno)
    • Historical context and influences (contributions by C. Stewart-Robertson, K. Holcomb, J. Fruchtman, P. Wood, D. F. Channell, C. E. Channell).
    
    
  
  

• Works on Reid and the Scottish Enlightenment

  • R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner, eds., The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh: J. Donald, 1982).
  • I. Hont and M. Ignatieff, eds., Wealth and Virtue: the Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983).
  • V. Hope, ed., Philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1984).
  • P. Jones, ed., The "Science of Man" in the Scottish Enlightenment: Hume, Reid and their Contemporaries (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1989).
  • F. Restaino, Scetticismo e senso comune. La filosofia scozzese da Hume a Reid (Bari: Laterza, 1974).
  • A. Santucci, ed., Scienza e filosofia scozzese nell'età di Hume (Vicenza: Il Mulino, 1976). With contributions by E. G. Forbes, L. Turco, D. F. Norton, E. Ronchetti, A. Santucci, G. Pancaldi, M. Ferriani, F. Restaino, G. C. Carabelli.
  • M. A. Stewart, ed., Studies in the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1990).
  • J. W. Yolton, Perceptual Acquaintance from Descartes to Reid (Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1984 and University of Minnesota Press, 1984).
  
  

• Monographs and Articles

  • F. Brentano, "Was an Reid zu loben. Uber die Philosophie von Thomas Reid" (from a manuscript, edited by R. M. Chisholm and R. Fabian), Grazer Philosophie Studien 1 (1975): 1-18.
  • A. Broadie, M. Mauri, and M. Anglès Cervelló, eds., Escepticismo y sentido común (Barcelona: University of Barcelona 1997).
  • B. A. Brody, "Reid and Hamilton on Perception," The Monist 55 (1971): 423-41.
  • P. Cummins, "Reid's Realism," Journal of the History of Philosophy 12 (1974): 317-40.
  • M. Dalgarno, "Reid and the Rights of Man," Man and Nature: Proceedings of the Canadian Society for 18th Century Studies 4 (1985): 81-94.
  • N. Daniels, "Thomas Reid's Discovery of a Non-Euclidean Geometry," Philosophy of Science 39 (1972): 219-34.
  • N. Daniels, Thomas Reid's Inquiry: The Geometry of Visibles and the Case for Realism (New York: B. Franklin, 1974; repr. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1989).
  • L. Dauriac, Le realisme de Reid (Paris, 1889).
  • G. E. Davie, the Social Significance of the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense Being the Dow Lecture Delivered Before the University of Dundee on 30 November 1972 (Edinburgh: Constable, 1973).
  • P. J. Diamond, Common Sense and Improvement: Thomas Reid as Social Theorist (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1998). Scottish Studies International series, Vol. 24.
  • W. J. Ellos, Thomas Reid's Newtonian Realism (Washington: Univ. Press of America, 1981).
  • L. Falkenstein, "Hume and Reid on the Simplicity of the Soul," Hume Studies 26, no. 1 (1995): 25-45.
  • A. C. Fraser, Thomas Reid (Edinburgh and London, 1898).
  • R. Gallie, Thomas Reid and "The Way of Ideas" (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989).
  • R. Gallie, Thomas Reid: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Anatomy of the Self (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998).
  • A. Garnier, Critique de la philosophie de Thomas Reid (Paris: Hachette, 1840). Reprinted by Thoemmes, Bristol 1989.
  • S. A. Grave, The Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960). Extensive and detailed presentation of Reid's and his Scottish allies' philosophies.
  • E. Griffin-Collart, La philosophie ecossaise du sens commun: Thomas Reid et Dugald Stewart (Bruxelles: Academie Royale de Belgique, 1979).
  • K. G. Kitagawa, "Cadgers Are Ay Speaking of Crooksadlers: The Rediscovered Letters of Thomas Reid to Drs Andrew and David Skene," Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 314 (1993): 207-29.
  • M. Kuehn, Scottish Common Sense in Germany, 1768-1800 (Kingston, Ontario: McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, 1987).
  • K. Lehrer, "Can We Know that We Have Free Will by Introspection?" Journal of Philosophy 57 (1960): 145-156.
  • K. Lehrer, "Scottish Influences on Contemporary American Philosophy," Philosophical Journal 5 (1968): 34-42.
  • K. Lehrer, Thomas Reid (London and New York: Routledge, 1989; 2nd ed., 1991). A thorough monograph on Reid's philosophy: a perfect starting point for study and discussion, written by one of the most important Reid scholars.
  • L. L. Laudan, "The Vis Viva Controversy: A Post-Mortem," Isis 59 (1968): 131-43. Includes the reprint of a significant portion of Reid's Essay on Quantity.
  • L. L. Laudan, "Thomas Reid and the Newtonian Turn of British Methodological Thought," in R. E. Butts and J. W. Davis, eds., The Methodological Heritage of Newton (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1970), 103-31. Fundamental study on Newton's influence on Reid's anathomy of the mind.
  • D. McDermid, "Thomas Reid on Moral Liberty and Common Sense," British Journal for the History of Philosophy 7, no. 2 (1999): 275-303.
  • M. F. P. G. Maine De Biran, "Comparison des trois points de vue de Th. Reid, Condillac et M. de Tracy sur l'idée de l'existence, ou le jugement d'extériorité," in P. Tisserand, ed., "Six manuscrits inédits de Maine de Biran," Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 14 (1906): 455-59.
  • J. Manns, Reid and His French Disciples: Aesthetics and Metaphysics (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994).
  • L. Marcil-Lacoste, Claude Buffier and Thomas Reid: Two Common-Sense Philosophers (Kingston, Ontario: McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, 1982).
  • L. Marcil-Lacoste, "Dieu garant de veracite, ou Reid critique de Descartes," Dialogue 14 (1975): 15-17. A very interesting issue: on what basis our faculties can be considered reliable? A comparison between Descartes's and Reid's solutions.
  • D. F. Norton, "George Turnbull and the Furniture of the Mind," Journal of the History of Ideas 36 (1975): 701-16. A historical reconstruction of the philosophy of Reid's teacher at the University of Aberdeen.
  • J. Priestley, An Examination of Dr. Reid's "Inquiry into the Human Mind," Dr. Beattie's "Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth," and Dr. Oswald's "Appeal to Common Sense in Behalf of Religion" (London: J. Johnson, 1774; repr. New York: Garland, 1978). The Englishman against the Scot: the first strong critique of the philosophy of Common Sense.
  • D. D. Raphael, The Moral Sense (London, 1947). Very interesting pages devoted to Reid's original development of Hutcheson's classical theory on the moral sense.
  • D. N. Robinson, "Thomas Reid's Critique of Dugald Stewart," Journal of the History of Philosophy 27 (1989): 405-22.
  • W. L. Rowe, Thomas Reid on Freedom and Morality (Ithaca and London: Cornell Univ. Press, 1991).
  • D. Schulthess, Philosophie et sens commun chez Th. Reid (1710-1796) (Berne: Peter Lang, 1983).
  • M. F. Sciacca, La filosofia di Tommaso Reid. Con un'appendice sui rapporti con Galluppi e Rosmini (Napoli: Perrella, 1935).
  • D. Stewart, Account of the Life and Writings of Thomas Reid, D.D., F.R.S.E (Edinburgh, 1802). Reprinted in W. Hamilton, ed., Thomas Reid. Philosophical Works (cited above). The first and standard bio-hagiography of Reid.
  • J. C. Stewart-Robertson, "Reid's Anatomy of Culture: A Scottish Response to the Eloquent Jean-Jacques," Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 205 (1982): 141-163.
  • L. Turco, Dal sistema al senso comune. Studi sul newtonismo e gli illuministi britannici (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1974).
  • H. L. Ulman, ed., The Minutes of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society, 1758-1773 (Aberdeen, 1990). A detailed review of the manuscripts of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society joined by Reid while he was a teacher at the University of Aberdeen. Interesting hints for a reconstruction of the genesis of Reid's thought and earlier works.
  • J. A. Weinstock, "Reid's Definition of Freedom," Journal of the History of Philosophy 13 (1975): 335-45.
  • N. Wolterstorff, "Thomas Reid on Rationality," in H. Hart, J. van der Hoeven, and N. Wolterstorff, eds., Rationality in the Calvinian Tradition (Boston, London 1983), 43-69.
  • P. Wood, "David Hume on Thomas Reid's An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense: A New Letter to Hugh Blair from July 1762," Mind 95 (1986): 411-16.
  • P. Wood, "The Natural History of Man in the Scottish Enlightenment," History of Science 28, no. 79 (1990): 89-123. A valuable analysis of the deep relations between natural sciences and philosophy in the research projects of the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment.
  • P. Wood, "'The Fittest Man in the Kingdom': Thomas Reid and the Glasgow Chair of Moral Philosophy," Hume Studies 23, no. 2 (1997): 277-313.
  • J. P. Wright, "Hume versus Reid on Ideas: The New Hume Letter," Mind 96 (1987): 392-98.
  
  

• Essential Dissertations on Reid's Philosophy

  • P. J. Diamond, The Ideology of Improvement: Thomas Reid and the Political Thought of the Scottish Enlightenment (Ph.D. dissertation, John Hopkins University, 1986).
  • D. F. Norton, From Moral Sense to Common Sense: An Essay on the Development of Scottish Common Sense Philosophy, 1700-1765 (Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 1966).
  • P. Wood, Thomas Reid Natural Philosopher: A Study of Science and Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leeds, 1984). Probably the best historical reconstruction of Reid's life; full of references to previously undiscovered or unpublished materials.
  
  

Electronic Resources

• The Reid Project Web site (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/philosophy/reid.hti). The Reid Project is based in the University of Aberdeen; its aims are to stimulate, coordinate and support interest in Thomas Reid and the philosophy of common sense, their place within the history of philosophy, and their relevance to contemporary philosophical discussion; to foster the study of the Thomas Reid papers held in the University of Aberdeen Special Collections; to investigate the existence of an "Aberdeen School," and to trace its relationship with other traditions in Scotland, Britain, Europe, and America. The site provides useful information on the Project activities and on Reid Studies, the journal devoted to Reid and Scottish philosophy of the Enlightenment.
• Aberdeen Philosophy Society -- Thomas Reid page (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~src068/reid.htm). The first Internet site devoted to Reid, still valuable, mantained by Christian Rhein. Useful links and original contributions.
• Italian Group for the Study of the British Enlightenment ( http://www.unibo.it/britenl). A referenced site presenting the members, their publications and activities, together with a rare books sections and useful links. The Group gathers scholars from all over the country and this site is a good way to acquire knowledge of their valuable researches. Some information on Reid, too.

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