Hume's Scepticism and the Science of Human Nature

ISBN-13: 9781138272934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 238 str.

Paul Stanistreet

Opis

This book explores the relationship between Hume's sceptical philosophy and his Newtonian ambition of founding a science of human nature. Assessing both received and 'new' readings of Hume's philosophy, Stanistreet offers a line of interpretation which, he argues, makes sense of many of the apparent conflicts and paradoxes in Hume's work and describes how well-known controversies concerning Hume's thinking about causation, induction and the external world can be resolved. Offering important new contributions to Hume scholarship, this book also surveys and assesses the new research responsible for the recent sea-change in thinking about Hume. It offers an accessible overview of these developments while suggesting significant revisions to current readings of Hume's philosophy.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Science and the study of human nature; Ideas and association; Causality, reason and causal inference; Hume and the new Hume; Hume’s scepticisim regarding the senses; Hume’s true philosophy and Reid’s common sense; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Paul Stanistreet