Thomas Reid and the Defence of Duty

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 UniversityAn enlightening, valuable, and significant contribution not only to the literature on Reid’s moral theory but even more to important issues and debates running through the corpus of modern and contemporary moral theory. – Fotini Vaki, Ionian University * Eighteenth-Century Scotland *

James J.S. Foster is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Theology and Director of the Honors Program at the University of Sioux Falls. He 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.