Scottish common sense realism

Scottish common sense realism, also known as the Scottish school of common sense,^[1] is a realist school of philosophy that originated in the ideas of Scottish philosophers Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, James Beattie, and Dugald Stewart during the 18th-century Scottish Enlightenment. Reid emphasized man's innate ability to perceive common ideas and that this process is inherent in and interdependent with judgement. Common sense, therefore, is the foundation of philosophical inquiry. Though best remembered for its opposition to the pervasive philosophy of David Hume, Scottish common sense philosophy is influential and evident in the works of Thomas Jefferson and late 18th-century American politics.^[2]^[3]

"Scottish realism" redirects here. Not to be confused with the art movement, see Scottish art.

Adam Smith

Direct realism

Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)

History of philosophy in Poland §§ and Messianism

Enlightenment

James Frederick Ferrier

Naive realism

Scottish philosophy

Thomas Brown (philosopher)

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Paul Edwards

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in JSTOR

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online

Haakonssen, Knud. "Scottish Common Sense Realism" in Richard Wightman Fox and James T. Kloppenberg, eds. A companion to American thought (1995) pp 618–20

Marsden, George M. Fundamentalism and American Culture (2006)

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Noll, Mark. The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. Eerdmans, 1994. (see chapter 5 for influence of SCSR on fundamentalism)

Rosenfeld, Sophia. Common Sense: A Political History (Harvard University Press; 2011) 346 pages; traces the history of common sense as a political ideal since England's Glorious Revolution (1688).

Wolterstorff, Nicholas. Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 0-521-53930-7

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James Feiser, "A Bibliography of Scottish Common Sense Philosophy"

BBC Radio 4 discussion with A.C. Grayling, Melissa Lane & Alexander Broadie (In Our Time, June 21, 2007)