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

ISBN-13: 9781138503137 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

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 are justified in believing in the existence of such entities solely on the basis of their explanatory power. Given the long-standing tradition of interpreting Hume as eschewing such forms of explanation, Landy’s close and original reading of the Treatise has significant consequences for understanding many of his most famous arguments.

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).