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Jessop, Ralph. "Carlyle and the Scottish philosophy of common sense." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241049.

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Tannoch-Bland, Jennifer. "The Primacy of Moral Philosophy: Dugald Stewart and the Scottish Enlightenment." Thesis, Griffith University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367765.

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Dugald Stewart was an influential teacher and philosopher during the final years of the Scottish Enlightenment. Until recently he has been seen as merely a significant expositor of Thomas Reid's common sense philosophy. This thesis does not attempt to assess the novelty of Stewart's writings in relation to his Scottish predecessors such as Reid: rather, it offers a detailed historical study of aspects of his work, placing them in the political and cultural context of the period following the French Revolution. Two questions stimulated this thesis. First, what prompted Stewart, a moral philo

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Denny, J. Wayne. "The influence of Scottish common sense realism on B. B. Warfield and his formulation of the doctrine of inerrancy." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1111.

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Brodrecht, Grant R. "The Scottish common-sense tradition and pragmatism the thought of James McCosh and Charles Sanders Peirce compared /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2000. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p068-0223.

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Tannoch-Bland, Jennifer, and J. Tannoch-Bland@mailbox gu edu au. "The Primacy of Moral Philosophy: Dugald Stewart and the Scottish Enlightenment." Griffith University. School of Humanities, 2000. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20030303.100636.

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Dugald Stewart was an influential teacher and philosopher during the final years of the Scottish Enlightenment. Until recently he has been seen as merely a significant expositor of Thomas Reid's common sense philosophy. This thesis does not attempt to assess the novelty of Stewart's writings in relation to his Scottish predecessors such as Reid: rather, it offers a detailed historical study of aspects of his work, placing them in the political and cultural context of the period following the French Revolution. Two questions stimulated this thesis. First, what prompted Stewart, a moral philo

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Duncan, Jennings Ligon. "Common sense and American Presbyterianism an evaluation of the impact of Scottish realism on Princeton and the South (with an appendix on Protestant scholasticism) /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Pickens, Bradley J. "The emergence of an American, capitalist ecclesiology in the independent Christian churches : an analysis of how the Stone-Campbell restoration movement created a new theological tradition based on Scottish common sense philosophy." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2005. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6947/.

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This thesis identifies and describes the fundamental theological positions of the Independent Christian Churches, one of three main branches of the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement, an upstart church that had its beginnings on the American frontier in the early nineteenth century. The Independent Christian Churches theology is dependent upon the particular hermeneutic method developed by the Movement's founders and this thesis explores the implications of the Independent Christian Churches hermeneutic. This hermeneutic is based on the epistemological assumptions of the philosophy of Scottis

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Blechman, Max. "Rousseau : the politics of common sense." Thesis, Kingston University, 2013. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/28230/.

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In his First Discourse, Rousseau begins a radical critique of modern civilization in the name of a "revolution to bring human beings back to common sense." This dissertation proposes to use Rousseau's notion of common sense heuristically, to outline its main philosophical premises and its organization of moral and political critique. The common sense Rousseau defines as the well-ruled usage of the senses that instructs us about the nature of things is read as the natural law of judgment whose historical contradiction grounds human morality (in the reinstatement of common sense by conscience) a

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Wilkie, S. "Common sense and metaphysics in the philosophy of perception." Thesis, Swansea University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.636600.

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The fundamental and unargued assumption of the philosophy of perception is that there is such a thing as perception: where it appears explicitly, it is in the guise of common sense. Thus, it appears to corroborate the even more fundamental assumption that philosophy is an inquiry into ordinary questions, and, therefore, begins with concepts or ways of thinking which are non-philosophical. This thesis contrasts that theory with the arguments practised by philosophers of perception. Arguments which move from what you do believe to what you should believe are most effectively undermined by denyin

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Krishna, Nakul. "The morality of common sense : problems from Sidgwick." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f2ac036e-115d-4e02-b5a8-cd6ab40f0800.

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Much modern moral philosophy has conceived of its interpretative and critical aims in relation to an entity it sometimes terms 'common-sense morality'. The term was influentially used in something like its canonical sense by Henry Sidgwick in his classic work The Methods of Ethics (1874). Sidgwick conceived of common-sense morality as a more-or-less determinate body of current moral opinion, and traced his ('doxastic') conception through Kant back to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and the practice of Plato's Socrates before him. The Introduction to this thesis traces the influence of Sidgwick'

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Schröder, Miriam [Verfasser]. "Constructing Scottish Identity in Media Discourses : The Use of Common Sense Knowledge in the Scottish Press / Miriam Schröder." Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1080457526/34.

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Asadi, Dena. "A New Sense to Common Sense : Context and Interdependence in Goodman and Nāgārjuna." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-5137.

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Some form of absolutism has generally been the majority view within philosophy and in other traditions, and it is common to take absolutism for granted without providing rational arguments or empirical evidence in support of it. However, such attitudes are not viable if we want to avoid dogmatism. In this paper, I question absolutism and the closely associated correspondence theory of truth through the writings of Goodman and Nāgārjuna. I first describe Goodman‟s philosophy with a focus on his works dealing with „worldmaking‟ and multiple true versions. Subsequently follows an outline of Nāgār

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Annis, R. J. "Is Thomas Reid's common sense philosopy compatible with religious belief." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.370635.

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Simpson, Lewis David. "The relationships of common sense philosophy to Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487325740720617.

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Phelps, Matthew E. "John Witherspoon and the transmission of Common Sense philosophy from Scotland to America." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367844.

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Vasilionytė, Ieva. "The possibility of a moral theory compatible with common-sense morality." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2014. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2014~D_20140701_110356-86907.

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The dissertation explores the question of the possibility of a moral theory compatible with common sense morality. Common sense morality is limited to its two fundamental features, or suppositions: moral judgements are truth apt and practical, i.e. they are at the same time in some sense objectively right or wrong and necessarily action guiding. In contemporary philosophy, the two fundamental features of common sense morality seem to be incompatible: only descriptions can have truth values, but descriptions are not prescriptions, or, to put it otherwise, from the way the things are, it does no

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Acikoz, Haci Mustafa. "An investigation of the question of human agency and freedom in Thomas Reid's philosophy of action." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1995. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU076912.

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In philosophy the 'free will question' viz., "do we have free will by which we can freely perform an action of our own?" has been the cause and interest of one of the oldest debates of philosophy. The historical background of the 'free will debate' and of its participants can be traced back to the philosophy of Hellenistic (era) that covers the Peripatetic, Epicurean and Stoics schools. Then, it is extended from the Medieval tradition (St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas and so on) through the Modern (era) philosophy (the Cartesian, the Empiricists and the Common Sense Schools) to the Contempora

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Waugh, Shane G. "Betwixt a false reason and none at all Pyrrhonian lessons on common sense and natural commitments /." Connect to full text, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5445.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2009.<br>Title from title screen (viewed October 15, 2009) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2009; thesis submitted 2008. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

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Jang, Sung Shik. "Contextualization in the Princeton theology, 1822-1878 Scottish common sense realism and the doctrine of providence in the theology of Charles Hodge /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Staley, Thomas William. "Making Sense in Nineteenth Century Britain: Affinities of the Philosophy of Mind, c.1820-1860." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/11118.

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This work examines British inquiry into the human mind in the early nineteenth century using a multivalent structural analysis of ideas and practices within traditions established by Hume, Hartley, and Reid. While these traditions were propagated into the nineteenth century by such figures as Thomas Brown, James Mill, Sir William Hamilton, and Alexander Bain, this later period has received a dearth of attention in the history of psychology, the history of philosophy, and the history of ideas in general. This conspicuous lacuna forms the basis for two simple questions: What was the situated s

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Balieiro, Marcos Ribeiro. "Essa mistura terrena grosseira: filosofia e vida comum em David Hume." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-30042010-113457/.

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Ainda que muitos trabalhos tenham sido escritos sobre a filosofia de David Hume, é bastante raro vermos comentários sobre o que seria, para ele, a própria filosofia. Na maior parte das vezes, os intérpretes da obra desse filósofo limitam a caracterizá-lo como cético, naturalista, realista, sentimentalista, entre outras categorias. Entretanto, falta-lhes, comumente, uma preocupação real em julgar as teses de Hume à luz daquilo que poderia ser considerado a sua concepção de filosofia. O que pretendemos com este trabalho é justamente indicar uma forma de lidar com os textos de Hume que permita in

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Karvelytė, Kristina. "Beprotybės interpretacija Gilles Deleuze'o filosofijoje." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2005. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050523_154141-66502.

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The interpretation of unreason in Gilles Deleuze‘s philosophy Deleuze argues that all philosophy must originate itself from violence. The violence in thought is evoken by problems, which aren‘t given but constituted in mind. The fundamental problem of thought is incapacity to think itself, the malaise of mind, stupidity or madness. The dogmatical image of thought takes the common form of an 'Everybody knows . . .' , and in the following way disassociates itself from the problem - it merely dislodges madness from discourse of reason. Deleuze shows that the problem of madness should be included

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Crissiuma, Ricardo. "Será mesmo que a revolução terminou? Filosofia e história nos primeiros escritos hegelianos de Iena (1801-1803)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-08022011-124640/.

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Na Alemanha, a Crítica da Razão Pura, em 1781, inaugura uma nova forma de se pensar a metafísica; na França, a queda da Bastilha, em 1789, expressa uma nova forma de se atuar na história. Muita esperança foi depositada nesses dois acontecimentos, mas pouco depois da virada para o século XIX, são diversas as vozes que afirmam que eles já teriam chegado ao um final. A filosofia hegeliana tenta conferir uma resposta a essas vozes. Para tanto, Hegel busca rearticular a relação entre filosofia e história a partir do conceito de carecimento da filosofia. Se, por certo, este conceito é retirado da pr

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França, Freitas Vinícius. "Thomas Reid sur les premiers principes de la connaissance spéculative, morale et politique." Thesis, Paris 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA01H221.

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Cette dissertation rend compte de la théorie des premiers principes de la connaissance de Thomas Reid (1710-1796), plus particulièrement, de la théorie des premiers principes de la philosophie de l'esprit, de la morale et de la politique. Dans le premier chapitre, je discute des engagements fondationnalistes de Reid dans la philosophie de l'esprit, de la morale et de la politique. Je soutiens qu'il est clairement un fondationnaliste en ce qui concerne la connaissance spéculative et morale, mais qu’il n'est pas clair qu’il conserve les engagements fondationnalistes en matière de savoir politiqu

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Doria, C. "FILOSOFIA, POLITICA E MORALE NEL PENSIERO DI PIERRE PAUL ROYER-COLLARD (1763-1845)." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/203149.

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This work presents an analysis of the philosophical and the political thought of Pierre Paul Royer-Collard (1763-1845), a politician and intellectual who lived during the French Restoration and the July’s Monarchy. I have traced an intellectual biography of the author, to show the influence of his different experiences as a public man (deputy, professor, State counsellor) on the construction and the development of his thought. His philosophical and political ideas have been considered from the intellectual context of their creation, and analysed in all their parts and purposes. His theory

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Skelton, Edward. "Common Sense Within the Bounds of Philosophy: Reid’s Philosophy of Common Sense Defended." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4788.

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I proffer a defense Reid’s Philosophy of Common Sense. I address the initial implausibility that greets most all of us when we stop to consider the prospects for common sense as guide to knowledge and inquiry. I argue that this initial implausibility is based upon a misapprehension of what Reid understands by common sense. I address the justification of common sense. I argue that common sense is justified, even if we cannot give a reason for it. I present an expansion and refinement of Reid’s notion of common sense as what we must take for granted.

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Burnfin, Daniel A. "Stop Making Sense: Hegel’s Critique of Common Understanding." 2020. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/185.

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This thesis presents Hegel’s account of abstract ‘understanding’ (Verstand) and asserts that his thought is to be read as primarily presenting a critique of abstract understanding. Verstand involves the methodological supposition of a self-subsistent fundament of what it speaks of, and hence the critique of understanding is the critique of the supposition of self-subsistent fundaments. Grasping his account and reading him in its critical light yields a very different image of Hegel than the caricature of ‘totalizing systems’. The dimension of the Verstandeskritik has been relatively neglected

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Cianciola, James. "The rhetoric and philosophy of early American discourse, 1767-1801 toward a theory of common sense /." 2005. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/etd,32467.

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Baise, Bryan Edward. ""Reiding Rawls": A critical assessment of Thomas Reid's Common Sense Philosophy as a response to John Rawls's doctrine of public reason." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10392/5252.

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This dissertation examines John Rawls’s doctrine of public reason in light of Thomas Reid’s Common Sense philosophy. Chapter 1 introduces the topics of public reason and common sense in order to suggest that Thomas Reid’s philosophy can provide a beneficial contribution to public policy debates. Chapter 2 examines key features of Rawls’s doctrine of public reason. Chapter 3 suggests that there are critical problems with Rawls’s doctrine of public reason. Chapter 4 examines key features of Thomas Reid’s common sense philosophy. Chapter 5 shows Reid’s common sense application in early American h

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Howard, Lucian Hugh. "About Time." Master's thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/101463.

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This is a thesis about time. It is also a thesis about how philosophers argue about time. In the first part of the thesis I introduce two key positions in contemporary philosophical debate about time: presentism, and eternalism. Initially I define these competing positions using the standard existence-oriented definitions one commonly finds in the literature. However, I later argue that the standard definitions lead to confusion, and suggest that new definitions - based on the notion of concreteness - are to be preferred. In the second

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França, Freitas Vinícius. "Thomas Reid sur les premiers principes de la connaissance spéculative, morale et politique." Thesis, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA01H221/document.

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Cette dissertation rend compte de la théorie des premiers principes de la connaissance de Thomas Reid (1710-1796), plus particulièrement, de la théorie des premiers principes de la philosophie de l'esprit, de la morale et de la politique. Dans le premier chapitre, je discute des engagements fondationnalistes de Reid dans la philosophie de l'esprit, de la morale et de la politique. Je soutiens qu'il est clairement un fondationnaliste en ce qui concerne la connaissance spéculative et morale, mais qu’il n'est pas clair qu’il conserve les engagements fondationnalistes en matière de savoir politiqu

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Paugh, Tim. "Gilles Deleuze and the apolitical production of being." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/942.

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Gilles Deleuze’s ontology is often understood to ground a kind of radical pluralism, the political defense of which is thought to be articulated most strongly in the Capitalism and Schizophrenia books. It is clear, however, that this “politics” is defined in a wholly negative way, and that the revolutionary dimension of these books is animated by a strictly ethical logic. In my view, if there is a politics in Deleuze it must be understood in relation to the central problem of his ontology: namely, the problem of understanding how Being is produced. To grasp politics as a singularity, as a mode

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Koffman, Jordan. "Truth and Tradition in Plato and the Cambridge Platonists." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/5253.

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Both Plato and the Cambridge Platonists hold the view that moral knowledge depends primarily on cognitive resources which are innate to the mind. There is, nevertheless, a need for our minds to be prompted through experience in order for knowledge to occur. The following study is an attempt to reconstruct and compare the accounts in Plato and the Cambridge Platonists of the empirical conditions that are required for knowledge. For Plato, these conditions are a result of a decline in political and psychological constitutions, through which the intellect is increasingly developed. Dialectic

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