Introduction : common sense in the Scottish Enlightenment / C.B. Bow -- Common sense and ideal theory in seventeenth-century Scottish philosophy / Giovanni Gellera -- Was Reid a moral realist? / Gordon Graham -- Reid on our mental constitution / Claire Etchegaray -- On the ancestry of Reid's inquiry : Stewart, Fearn, and Reid's early manuscripts / Giovanni B. Grandi -- A common sense response to Hume's moral atheism : Reid on morality and theism / Esther Engels Kroeker -- The common sense of a poet : James Beattie's essay on truth (1770) / R . J . W. Mills -- Hume and the common sense philosophers / James A. Harris -- The "new empire of common sense" : the reception of common sense philosophy in Britain, 1764-1793 / Paul B. Wood -- Dugald Stewart and the legacy of common sense in the Scottish Enlightenment / C.B. Bow.
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Common sense philosophy was one of the Scottish Enlightenment's most original intellectual products. The nine specially written essays in this volume explore the philosophical and historical significance of this school of thought, recovering the ways in which it developed during the long eighteenth century.