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- catalog abstract "Best known as a moralist and one of the founders of the Scottish Common Sense school of philosophy, Thomas Reid was also an influential scientific thinker. Here, his work on the life sciences is studied in detail, bringing together unpublished transcripts of his most important papers on natural history, physiology and materialist metaphysics. The volume falls into two main parts, the first of which contains a detailed introduction. This provided the first published account of Reid's reflections on the highly contraversial theories surrounding muscular motion and the reproduction of plants and animals, and relates them to the broader Enlightenment debates on these issues. It also contains the first systematic reconstruction of Reid's opposition to materialism, and views his polemics against the noted Dissenter Joseph Priestley in terms of their differing interpretations of the Newtonian legacy, their conflicting philosophical assumptions, and the cultural politics of Common Sense philosophy in the 1770s. The second part reproduces a selection of Reid's most significant papers on the life sciences, including his Glasgow Literary Society discourses on muscular motion and on Priestley's materialism, as well as other manuscripts which document the development of his scientific ideas.".
- catalog alternative "On the animate creation".
- catalog alternative "On the animate creation, papers relating to the life sciences".
- catalog contributor b8974670.
- catalog contributor b8974671.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Best known as a moralist and one of the founders of the Scottish Common Sense school of philosophy, Thomas Reid was also an influential scientific thinker. Here, his work on the life sciences is studied in detail, bringing together unpublished transcripts of his most important papers on natural history, physiology and materialist metaphysics.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-270) and index.".
- catalog description "The volume falls into two main parts, the first of which contains a detailed introduction. This provided the first published account of Reid's reflections on the highly contraversial theories surrounding muscular motion and the reproduction of plants and animals, and relates them to the broader Enlightenment debates on these issues. It also contains the first systematic reconstruction of Reid's opposition to materialism, and views his polemics against the noted Dissenter Joseph Priestley in terms of their differing interpretations of the Newtonian legacy, their conflicting philosophical assumptions, and the cultural politics of Common Sense philosophy in the 1770s. The second part reproduces a selection of Reid's most significant papers on the life sciences, including his Glasgow Literary Society discourses on muscular motion and on Priestley's materialism, as well as other manuscripts which document the development of his scientific ideas.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 274 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0271015713 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796. Works. Selections. 1996 ; [v. 1].".
- catalog isPartOf "The Edinburgh edition of Thomas Reid".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press,".
- catalog subject "2011 D-368".
- catalog subject "508 20".
- catalog subject "Materialism Early works to 1800.".
- catalog subject "Natural History History.".
- catalog subject "Natural history.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy History.".
- catalog subject "Physiology Early works to 1800.".
- catalog subject "Physiology History.".
- catalog subject "QH 45".
- catalog subject "QH45 .R39 1996".
- catalog title "On the animate creation".
- catalog title "On the animate creation, papers relating to the life sciences".
- catalog title "Thomas Reid on the animate creation : papers relating to the life sciences / edited by Paul Wood.".
- catalog type "Early works. fast".
- catalog type "text".