Description: Brings Thomas Reid into conversation with contemporary moral philosophy.
Brief description: James J.S. Foster is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Theology and Director of the Honors Program at the University of Sioux Falls. His previously published two edited volumes, Scottish Philosophy in America (Imprint Academic, 2012) and Thomas Reid on Religion (Imprint Academic, 2017). He is also the editor of the Journal of Scottish Philosophy.
Review Quotes:
The central thesis of James Foster's Thomas Reid and the Defence of Duty is that Reid was mostly right -- and Hume mostly wrong -- about the nature of right and wrong. Anyone who dogmatically denies the objectivity of moral distinctions ought to read Foster's book; it is lucid, lively and wise.
--Douglas McDermid, Trent University