This edition attempts to make these writings more readily available in a single volume. Based upon Hamilton's definitive two volume 6th edition, this edition is suitable for both students and scholars.

This new edition of Reid's classic philosophical text in the philosophy of mind at long last gives scholars a complete, rigorously edited text of the Inquiry with full critical apparatus in paperback.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.