Background
Reid, Louis Arnaud was born on February 18, 1895 in Ellon, Scotland.
New realist" philosopher of education
Reid, Louis Arnaud was born on February 18, 1895 in Ellon, Scotland.
University of Edinburgh and University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.
1919-1932, Lecturer in Philosophy, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, then (1926) University of Liverpool. 1932-1947, Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, University of Durham, Armstrong College, Newcastle upon Tyne. 1947-1962, Prolessor of Philosophy of Education, University of London, then Professor Emeritus ( 1962-1986).
In Knowledge and Truth (1923) Reid critically reviewed the whole ‘New Realist’ theory of knowledge, which had begun with G. E. Moore, to present his own variation of the realist doctrine that in knowledge the mind apprehends something that is ‘given’. Reid stressed that knowledge is not a mere passive mirroring of reality but a dynamic activity by which we achieve contact with the objectively real. He defined truth as knowledge which is the apprehension of reality, or a part of it, as it really 's. Besides theoretical experience Reid briefly considered aesthetic experience. This prepared the way for A Study in A esthetics (1931), a work largely concerned with the special Problems in aesthetic, such as the relation between art and truth, art and morality, and the ‘kinds’ of beauty. Reid's approach implied a treatment of aesthetic as an autonomous philosophical science, not simply as a branch of the theory of Perception. In subsequent works, Reid also considered moral experience and religious experience. In Ways of Knowledge and Experience (1961) Reid surveyed all these various modes of experience synoptically, placing them on a single ‘map’. That this mapping had explicit connections to curriculum planning reflected Reid’s involvement ln the philosophy of education. As first occupant °l the Chair in the Philosophy of Education at London, Reid played an important role in establishing the philosophy of education as a special subject taught in British universities. Sources: Metz: Who’s Who.