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Themes in Hume

Author : Terence Penelhum
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780199266357
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book Themes in Hume written by Terence Penelhum and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terence Penelhum presents a selection of the best of his essays on Hume, most of them quite recent, and three of them not published elsewhere. The central themes of the book are selfhood, the will, and religious belief. Penelhum argues that Hume's sceptical conclusions on personal identity are based on conceptual confusions, but that the common charge of circularity made against him is unfounded. He examines the role Hume gives the idea of the self in his analysis of the passions, the dissonance between the account of the self in the first book of the Treatise of Human Nature and that found in the second, and the reasons for Hume's own dissatisfaction with his views on this theme. The essays on the will examine Hume's famous attacks on rationalist understandings of human motives, and try to expose the deficiencies in his 'compatibilist' interpretation of freedom. The discussion of Hume's views on religion relates them to his scepticism and to his doctrine of natural belief. Penelhum maintains that Hume's ultimate views on religion are to be found in the harshly negative judgements of the first Enquiry, which he did not ever see reason to modify. Penelhum's essays will be fascinating for all who work on these themes, whether from an eighteenth-century or a twentieth-century perspective.

Themes in Hume

Author : Terence Penelhum
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198238980
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Themes in Hume written by Terence Penelhum and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2000 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terence Penelhum has since the 1950s been a leading contributor to studies of the thought of David Hume; he now presents a selection of the best of his essays on Hume, most of them quite recent, three of them previously unpublished. The central themes of the book are selfhood, the will, andreligious belief. Penelhum's view of Hume will be fascinating for all who work on these themes, whether from an eighteenth-century or a twentieth-century perspective.

Custom and Reason in Hume

Author : Henry E. Allison
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191615528
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Custom and Reason in Hume written by Henry E. Allison and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Allison examines the central tenets of Hume's epistemology and cognitive psychology, as contained in the Treatise of Human Nature. Allison takes a distinctive two-level approach. On the one hand, he considers Hume's thought in its own terms and historical context. So considered, Hume is viewed as a naturalist, whose project in the first three parts of the first book of the Treatise is to provide an account of the operation of the understanding in which reason is subordinated to custom and other non-rational propensities. Scepticism arises in the fourth part as a form of metascepticism, directed not against first-order beliefs, but against philosophical attempts to ground these beliefs in the "space of reasons." On the other hand, Allison provides a critique of these tenets from a Kantian perspective. This involves a comparison of the two thinkers on a range of issues, including space and time, causation, existence, induction, and the self. In each case, the issue is seen to turn on a contrast between their underlying models of cognition. Hume is committed to a version of the perceptual model, according to which the paradigm of knowledge is a seeing with the "mind's eye" of the relation between mental contents. By contrast, Kant appeals to a discursive model in which the fundamental cognitive act is judgment, understood as the application of concepts to sensory data, Whereas regarded from the first point of view, Hume's account is deemed a major philosophical achievement, seen from the second it suffers from a failure to develop an adequate account of concepts and judgment.

Locke, Berkeley, Hume

Author : Jonathan Francis Bennett
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Locke, Berkeley, Hume written by Jonathan Francis Bennett and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hume's Intentions

Author : J. A. Passmore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107697867
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Hume's Intentions written by J. A. Passmore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intention of this book was to to disentangle certain main themes in Hume's philosophy and relate them to Hume's main philosophic purpose.

The Essence of Hume's Philosophy

Author : David Hume
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 759 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Essence of Hume's Philosophy written by David Hume and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most central doctrines of Hume's philosophy is his notion that the mind consists of its mental perceptions, or the mental objects which are present to it, and which divide into two categories: impressions and ideas. David Hume strove to create a total naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. He argued against the existence of innate ideas, positing that all human knowledge is founded solely in experience. This book presents all the main Hume's ideas and teaching, beginning with his classic statement of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism, " A Treatise of Human Nature".

Stability and Justification in Hume's Treatise

Author : Louis E. Loeb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198033508
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Stability and Justification in Hume's Treatise written by Louis E. Loeb and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature is famous for its extreme skepticism. Louis Loeb argues that Hume's destructive conclusions have in fact obscured a constructive stage that Hume abandons prematurely. Working within a philosophical tradition that values tranquillity, Hume favors an epistemology that links justification with settled belief. Hume appeals to psychological stability to support his own epistemological assessments, both favorable regarding causal inference, and unfavorable regarding imaginative propensities. The theory's success in explaining Hume's epistemic distinctions gives way to pessimism, since Hume contends that reflection on beliefs is deeply destabilizing. So much the worse, Hume concludes, for placing a premium on reflection. Hume endorses and defends the position that stable beliefs of unreflective persons are justified, though they would not survive reflection. At the same time, Hume relishes the paradox that unreflective beliefs enjoy a preferred epistemic status and strains to establish it. Loeb introduces a series of amendments to the Treatise that secures a more positive result for justified belief while maintaining Hume's fundamental principles. In his review of Hume's applications of his epistemology, Loeb uncovers a stratum of psychological doctrine beyond associationism, a theory of conditions in which beliefs are felt to conflict and of the resolution of this uneasiness or dissonance. This theory of mental conflict is also essential to Hume's strategy for integrating empiricism about meaning with his naturalism. However, Hume fails to provide a general account of the conditions in which conflicting beliefs lead to persisting instability, so his theory is incomplete. Loeb explores Hume's concern with stability in reference to his discussions of belief, education, the probability of causes, unphilosophical probability, the belief in body, sympathy and moral judgment, and the passions, among other topics.

Reflecting Subjects

Author : Jacqueline Anne Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198729529
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Reflecting Subjects written by Jacqueline Anne Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a reconstruction of Hume's social theory and examines his moral philosophy, account of social power, and system of ethics.

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

Author : David Hume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1751 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hume

Author : Don Garrett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136309357
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Hume written by Don Garrett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with an overview of Hume's life and work, Don Garrett introduces in clear and accessible style the central aspects of Hume's thought. These include Hume's lifelong exploration of the human mind; his theories of inductive inference and causation; skepticism and personal identity; moral and political philosophy; aesthetics; and philosophy of religion. The final chapter considers the influence and legacy of Hume's thought today. Throughout, Garrett draws on and explains many of Hume's central works, including his Treatise of Human Nature, Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding, and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Hume is essential reading not only for students of philosophy, but anyone in the humanities and social sciences and beyond seeking an introduction to Hume's thought.

Knowledge, Reason, and Taste

Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691151172
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Reason, and Taste written by Paul Guyer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immanuel Kant famously said that he was awoken from his "dogmatic slumbers," and led to question the possibility of metaphysics, by David Hume's doubts about causation. Because of this, many philosophers have viewed Hume's influence on Kant as limited to metaphysics. More recently, some philosophers have questioned whether even Kant's metaphysics was really motivated by Hume. In Knowledge, Reason, and Taste, renowned Kant scholar Paul Guyer challenges both of these views. He argues that Kant's entire philosophy--including his moral philosophy, aesthetics, and teleology, as well as his metaphysics--can fruitfully be read as an engagement with Hume. In this book, the first to describe and assess Hume's influence throughout Kant's philosophy, Guyer shows where Kant agrees or disagrees with Hume, and where Kant does or doesn't appear to resolve Hume's doubts. In doing so, Guyer examines the progress both Kant and Hume made on enduring questions about causes, objects, selves, taste, moral principles and motivations, and purpose and design in nature. Finally, Guyer looks at questions Kant and Hume left open to their successors.

Hume, Passion, and Action

Author : Elizabeth Schmidt Radcliffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199573298
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Hume, Passion, and Action written by Elizabeth Schmidt Radcliffe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hume's theory of action is well known for several provocative theses, including that passion and reason cannot be opposed over the direction of action. Elizabeth S. Radcliffe defends an original interpretation of Hume's views on passion, reason, and motivation which is consistent with other theses in Hume's philosophy, loyal to his texts, and historically situated. She challenges the now orthodox interpretation of Hume on motivation, presenting an alternative that situates Hume closer to "Humeans" than many recent interpreters have. Part of the strategy is to examine the thinking of the early modern intellectuals to whom Hume responds. Most of these thinkers insisted that passions lead us to pursue harmful objects unless regulated by reason; and most regarded passions as representations of good and evil, which can be false. Understanding Hume's response to these claims requires appreciating his respective characterizations of reason and passion. The author argues that Hume's thesis that reason is practically impotent apart from passion is about beliefs generated by reason, rather than about the capacity of reason. Furthermore, the argument makes sense of Hume's sometimes-ridiculed description of passions as "original existences" having no reference to objects. The author also shows how Hume understood morality as intrinsically motivating, while holding that moral beliefs are not themselves motives, and why he thought of passions as self-regulating, contrary to the admonitions of the rationalists.

David Hume's Theory of Mind

Author : Daniel E. Flage
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429640048
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book David Hume's Theory of Mind written by Daniel E. Flage and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1990, is a detailed examination of David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature. It shows that the theory of mind developed in the Trestise is a thread which ties together many of the seemingly unrelated philosophical issues discussed in the work. Hume’s primary objective was to defend a ‘bundle theory’ of mind, and, through a close examination of the texts, this book provides a thorough account of how Hume understood this theory and the problems he discovered with it.

Imagination in Hume's Philosophy

Author : Timothy M. Costelloe
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474436412
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Imagination in Hume's Philosophy written by Timothy M. Costelloe and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defines the cutting-edge of scholarship on ancient Greek history employing methods from social science

Mirrors to One Another

Author : E. M. Dadlez
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444310405
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Mirrors to One Another written by E. M. Dadlez and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling exploration of the convergence of Jane Austen’sliterary themes and characters with David Hume’s views onmorality and human nature. Argues that the normative perspectives endorsed in JaneAusten's novels are best characterized in terms of a Humeanapproach, and that the merits of Hume's account of ethical,aesthetic and epistemic virtue are vividly illustrated by Austen'swriting. Illustrates how Hume and Austen complement one another, eachproviding a lens that allows us to expand and elaborate on theideas of the other Proposes that literature may serve as a thought experiment,articulating hypothetical cases which allow the reader to test hermoral intuitions Contributes to ongoing debates on the philosophy of literature,ethics, and emotion

The Concealed Influence of Custom

Author : Jay L. Garfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190933402
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Concealed Influence of Custom written by Jay L. Garfield and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jay L. Garfield defends two exegetical theses regarding Hume's Treatise on Human Nature. The first is that Book II is the theoretical foundation of the Treatise. Second, Garfield argues that we cannot understand Hume's project without an appreciation of his own understanding of custom, and in particular, without an appreciation of the grounding of his thought about custom in the legal theory and debates of his time. Custom is the source of Hume's thoughts about normativity, not only in ethics and in political theory, but also in epistemological, linguistics, and scientific practice- and is the source of his insight that our psychological and social natures are so inextricably linked. The centrality of custom and the link between the psychological and the social are closely connected, which is why Garfield begins with Book II. There are four interpretative perspectives at work in this volume: one is a naturalistic skeptical interpretation of Hume's Treatise; a second is the foregrounding of Book II of the Treatise as foundational for Books I and III. A third is the consideration of the Treatise in relation to Hume's philosophical antecedents (particularly Sextus, Bayle, Hutcheson, Shaftesbury, and Mandeville), as well as eighteenth century debates about the status of customary law, with one eye on its sequellae in the work of Kant, the later Wittgenstein, and in contemporary cognitive science. The fourth is the Buddhist tradition in which many of the ideas Hume develops are anticipated and articulated in somewhat different ways. Garfield presents Hume as a naturalist, a skeptic and as, above all, a communitarian. In offering this interpretation, he provides an understanding of the text as a whole in the context of the literature to which it responded, and in the context of the literature it inspired.

Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy

Author : Paul Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197577261
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy written by Paul Russell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosopher Paul Russell is well known for his scholarship on Hume and free will. This volume collects Russell's most important essays on Hume, with some articles addressing early modern philosophy more generally. The volume is organized thematically into five sections: metaphysics, free will, ethics, religion, and general interpretations of Hume's philosophy. In a substantive introduction, Russell outlines how his insights overlap and connect to various topicsin contemporary philosophy. Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy presents the reader with Russell's substantial and interconnected observations and insights on the matters and figures of the greatest importance in early modern philosophy.