Reading Hume on Human Understanding: Essays on the First Enquiry

ISBN-13: 9780198752103 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 512 str.

Peter Millican

Opis

This companion to the study of one of the great works of Western philosophy--David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748)--provides a general overview of the Enquiry, especially for those approaching it for the first time, and sets it in the context of Hume's philosophical work as a whole. It elucidates, analyzes, and assesses the philosophy of the Enquiry, clarifying its interpretation and discussing recent developments in Hume scholarship that are relevant to the Enquiry. The eminent contributors to this volume cover a broad range of topics: meaning, induction, skepticism, belief, personal identity, causation, freedom, miracles, probability, and religious belief.

Recenzje

Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding presents in elegant essay form many of the doctrines of Book One of A Treatise of Human Nature . . . [Millican] has with this collection, made it easier to discern the various ways in which Hume's second thoughts on human understanding differ from his first.

O autorze

Peter Millican is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Computing at the University of Leeds.