Imagination in Hume's Philosophy
Title | Imagination in Hume's Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy M. Costelloe |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2018-03-21 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1474436412 |
Defines the cutting-edge of scholarship on ancient Greek history employing methods from social science.
Imagination
Title | Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | E. J. Furlong |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780415296120 |
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Hume's Theory of Imagination
Title | Hume's Theory of Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Wilbanks |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Imagination |
ISBN | 9789024701711 |
Cognition and Commitment in Hume's Philosophy
Title | Cognition and Commitment in Hume's Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Don Garrett Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Utah |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 1996-12-05 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0198025769 |
It is widely believed that Hume often wrote carelessly and contradicted himself, and that no unified, sound philosophy emerges from his writings. Don Garrett demonstrates that such criticisms of Hume are without basis. Offering fresh and trenchant solutions to longstanding problems in Hume studies, Garrett's penetrating analysis also makes clear the continuing relevance of Hume's philosophy.
The Concealed Influence of Custom
Title | The Concealed Influence of Custom PDF eBook |
Author | Jay L. Garfield |
Publisher | |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0190933402 |
This volume provides a reading of Hume's Treatise as a whole, foregrounding Hume's understanding of custom and its role in the Treatise. It shows that Hume grounds his understanding of custom in its usage in English legal theory, and that he takes custom to be the foundation for normativity in all of its guises, whether moral, epistemic, or social. The book argues that Hume's project in the Treatise is to provide a socially inflected cognitive science--to understand how persons are constituted through an interaction of individual psychology and their social matrix--and that custom provides the ligature that ties together Hume's naturalism and skepticism. In doing so, it shows that Hume is a consistent Pyrrhonian skeptic, but that he takes the positive part of the skeptical program seriously, showing not only that our practices have no foundation, but that they need none, and that custom alone serves to explain and to justify our practices. (Resumen editorial).
Hume's Science of Human Nature
Title | Hume's Science of Human Nature PDF eBook |
Author | David Landy |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2019-12-17 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780367891718 |
Hume's Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing what he calls 'the science of human nature'. It argues that Hume understands scientific explanation as aiming at explaining the inductively-established universal regularities discovered in experience via an appeal to the nature of the substance underlying manifest phenomena. For years, scholars have taken Hume to employ a deliberately shallow and demonstrably untenable notion of scientific explanation. By contrast, Hume's Science of Human Nature sets out to update our understanding of Hume's methodology by using a more sophisticated picture of science as a model.
David Hume
Title | David Hume PDF eBook |
Author | Mark G. Spencer |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 2015-06-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0271068418 |
This volume provides a new and nuanced appreciation of David Hume as a historian. Gone for good are the days when one can offhandedly assert, as R. G. Collingwood once did, that Hume “deserted philosophical studies in favour of historical” ones. History and philosophy are commensurate in Hume’s thought and works from the beginning to the end. Only by recognizing this can we begin to make sense of Hume’s canon as a whole and see clearly his many contributions to fields we now recognize as the distinct disciplines of history, philosophy, political science, economics, literature, religious studies, and much else besides. Casting their individual beams of light on various nooks and crannies of Hume’s historical thought and writing, the book’s contributors illuminate the whole in a way that would not be possible from the perspective of a single-authored study. Aside from the editor, the contributors are David Allan, M. A. Box, Timothy M. Costelloe, Roger L. Emerson, Jennifer Herdt, Philip Hicks, Douglas Long, Claudia M. Schmidt, Michael Silverthorne, Jeffrey M. Suderman, Mark R. M. Towsey, and F. L. van Holthoon.