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Thomas Reid's notion of exertion

Paul David Hoffman

Journal of the History of Philosophy 44 (3):431-447 (2006)

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Thomas Reid on active power and free agency.Xiangdong Xu - 2011 - Frontiers of Philosophy in China 6 (3):369-389.details The paper argues that it is a mistake to interpret Thomas Reid as holding a libertarian notion of freedom, and to make use of Reid to argue in support of a libertarian position. More precisely, this paper shows that Reid’s theory of agent-causation may not be what these philosophers take it to be, once such crucial notions as agent-causation and active power in Reid’s theory of free agency have been fully explicated. Reid is more committed to accepting the view of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Reid on Powers of the Mind and the Person behind the Curtain.Laurent Jaffro - 2011 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 41 (S1):197-213.details According to Thomas Reid, powers of will and powers of understanding are distinguishable in thought, but conjoined in practice. This paper examines the claim that there is no inert intelligence, the operations of the understanding involving some degree of activity. The question is: whose activity? For it is clear that a great deal of our mental activity is not in our power. We need to distinguish between a weak and a strong sense of ‘power’, and consider our dependence ‘upon God (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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