Hume's Science of Human Nature: Scientific Realism, Reason, and Substantial Explanation

ISBN-13: 9780367891718 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 266 str.

David Landy

Opis

This book updates our understanding of Hume’s scientific methodology by using a more sophisticated picture of science as a model. Landy argues that Hume is a kind of scientific realist who holds that science can and must employ theoretical representations of unobservable entities to explain the observed regularities of experience, and that we ar

O autorze

David Landy is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Kant’s Inferentialism: The Case Against Hume (Routledge, 2015).