Author: John P. WrightPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719008825
Category : Sceptics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Sceptical Realism of David Hume
Author: John P. WrightPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719008825
Category : Sceptics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Hume
Author: Paul RussellPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190493925
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) is widely regarded as the greatest and most significant English-speaking philosopher and often seen as having had the most influence on the way philosophy is practiced today in the West. His reputation is based not only on the quality of his philosophical thought but also on the breadth and scope of his writings, which ranged over metaphysics, epistemology, morals, politics, religion, and aesthetics. The Handbook's 38 newly commissioned chapters are divided into six parts: Central Themes; Metaphysics and Epistemology; Passion, Morality and Politics; Aesthetics, History, and Economics; Religion; Hume and the Enlightenment; and After Hume. The volume also features an introduction from editor Paul Russell and a chapter on Hume's biography.
The New Hume Debate
Author: Rupert ReadPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134555288
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Projection and Realism in Hume's Philosophy
Author: P. J. E. KailPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191614599
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
In his writings, Hume talks of our 'gilding and staining' natural objects, and of the mind's propensity to 'spread itself' on the world. This has led commentators to use the metaphor of 'projection' in connection with his philosophy: Hume is held to have taught that causal power and self are projections, that God is a projection of our fear, and that value is a projection of sentiment. By considering what it is about Hume's writing that occasions this metaphor, P. J. E. Kail spells out its meaning, the role it plays in Hume's work, and examines how, if at all, what sounds 'projective' in Hume can be reconciled with what sounds 'realist'. In addition to offering some highly original readings of Hume's central ideas, Projection and Realism in Hume's Philosophy offers a detailed examination of the notion of projection and the problems it faces.
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
Author: David HumePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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The Evident Connexion
Author: Galen StrawsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199608504
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Evident Connexion presents a bold new reading of David Hume's famous 'bundle' theory of the self or mind, and his later rejection of it. Galen Strawson illuminates the 'uniting principle' of Hume's philosophy and argues that the bundle theory does not, as widely supposed, claim that there are no subjects of experience.
Character and Causation
Author: Constantine SandisPublisher:
ISBN: 9781138283787
Category : Act (Philosophy)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
In the first ever book-length treatment of David Hume's philosophy of action, Constantine Sandis brings together seemingly disparate aspects of Hume's work to present an understanding of human action that is much richer than previously assumed. Sandis showcases Hume's interconnected views on action and its causes by situating them within a wider vision of our human understanding of personal identity, causation, freedom, historical explanation, and morality. In so doing, he also relates key aspects of the emerging picture to contemporary concerns within the philosophy of action and moral psychology, including debates between Humeans and anti-Humeans about both 'motivating' and 'normative' reasons. Character and Causation takes the form of a series of essays which collectively argue that Hume's overall project proceeds by way of a soft conceptual revisionism that emerges from his Copy Principle. This involves re-calibrating our philosophical ideas of all that agency involves to fit a scheme that more readily matches the range of impressions that human beings actually have. On such a reading, once we rid ourselves of a certain kind of metaphysical ambition we are left with a perfectly adequate account of how it is that people can act in character, freely, and for good reasons. The resulting picture is one that both unifies Hume's practical and theoretical philosophy and radically transforms contemporary philosophy of action for the better.
Hume's 'A Treatise of Human Nature'
Author: John P. WrightPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521833760
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Examines the development of Hume's ideas and their relation to eighteenth-century theories of the imagination and passions.
Hume's Enlightenment Tract
Author: Stephen BucklePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199271143
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Contrary to Hume's wishes, 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding' has long lived in the shadow of its predecessor 'A Treatise of Human Nature'. Stephen Buckle presents the 'Enquiry' in a fresh light.
Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment
Author: Ryu SusatoPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748699813
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Demonstrates the uniqueness of Hume as an Enlightenment thinker, illustrating how his 'spirit of scepticism' often leads him into seemingly paradoxical positions. This book will be of interest to Hume scholars, intellectual historians of 17th- to 19th-century Europe and those interested in the Enlightenment more widely.