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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Reid has received more than 397,923 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Thomas Reid is the 573rd most popular philosopher (down from 554th in 2019), the 1,264th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,191st in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Thomas Reid ranks 573 out of 1,081Before him are Johann Bernhard Basedow, Eric Voegelin, Paul Virilio, Zhang Daoling, Barlaam of Seminara, and Yang Zhu. After him are Hans Blumenberg, Narayana Guru, Hermann Lotze, Dignāga, Arete of Cyrene, and Diogenes of Babylon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1710, Thomas Reid ranks 8Before him are Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Muhammad bin Saud, Domenico Alberti, and Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo. After him are Thomas Simpson, András Hadik, Mohammed ben Abdallah, Thomas Arne, Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle, and Paolo Renier. Among people deceased in 1796, Thomas Reid ranks 10Before him are Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia, James Macpherson, Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, Shahrokh Shah, Johann Daniel Titius, and Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland. After him are Pyotr Rumyantsev, Adolph Freiherr Knigge, Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, and Velu Nachiyar.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Reid ranks 1,264 out of 7,765Before him are Wallace Hartley (1878), John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury (1384), Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813), Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick (1475), Alistair MacLean (1922), and Charles Frederick Worth (1825). After him are George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1827), Alexander Mackenzie (1764), William Stuart-Houston (1911), Thomas Simpson (1710), Robert Fludd (1574), and Dusty Springfield (1939).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Reid ranks 33Before him are Adam Ferguson (1723), Roger Scruton (1944), Alasdair MacIntyre (1929), A. J. Ayer (1910), Harriet Taylor Mill (1807), and Antony Flew (1923). After him are Alexander of Hales (1175), John Austin (1790), David Hartley (1705), R. G. Collingwood (1889), Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623), and Gilbert Ryle (1900).