
Common Sense: Between Democratic Promise and Political Peril
Thomas Telios considers common sense as a contested and performative concept shaping democratic discourse and political exclusion.

Thomas Telios considers common sense as a contested and performative concept shaping democratic discourse and political exclusion.
By Gordon Graham Scottish philosophy has regularly been identified with the ‘School of Common Sense’ because of the high regard in which Thomas Reid’s Inquiry was held in his lifetime and for many decades thereafter. Nevertheless, some major Scottish philosophers…