How To Read Hume

Author : Simon Blackburn
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1783781459
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How To Read Hume written by Simon Blackburn and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.' David Hume David Hume is generally recognized as the United Kingdom's greatest philosopher, as well as a notable historian and essayist and a central figure of the Enlightenment. Yet his work is delicately poised between scepticism and naturalism, between despair at the limited powers of the mind and optimism at the progress we can make by understanding it. This difficult balancing act has given rise to a multitude of different interpretations: reading Hume has never been free of controversy. In this new approach to his writings, Simon Blackburn describes how Hume can be considered one of the earliest, and most successful, evolutionary psychologists, weaving plausible natural accounts of the way we should think of ourselves and of how we have come to be what we are.

Author : Peter Millican
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191591971
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Hume on Human Understanding : Essays on the First Enquiry written by Peter Millican and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2002-03-14 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Hume on Human Understanding is a companion to the study of one of the great works of Western philosophy. David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748) has long been recognized as one of the best 'classics' for introducing students to the subject; these essays, most of them specially written for this volume, show how much more than this it is. The aims of the volume are: to provide a general overview of the Enquiry, especially for those approaching it for the first time; to set it in the context of Hume's philosophical work as a whole and establish its importance in that context: to elucidate, analyse, and assess the philosophy of the Enquiry, and clarify its interpretation; and to discuss recent developments in Hume scholarship that are relevant to the Enquiry. The eminent contributors to this volume cover a broad range of topics: meaning, induction, scepticism, belief, personal identity, causation, freedom, miracles, probability, and religious belief. These topics remain at the centre of philosophical debate today, and Hume's treatment of them in the Enquiry continues to demand attention and attract controversy.

Author : Henry E. Allison
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191615528
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( 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.

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134958552
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hume-Arg Philosophers written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-05-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : DAVID HUME
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9361157671
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays written by DAVID HUME and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th-century collection of philosophical articles "Essays" was penned by Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume. The essays' broad range of subjects reflects Hume's varied interests in politics, literature, and philosophy. "A Treatise of Human Nature," one of Hume's most important essays, examines human thinking and makes the case for a more sceptical and empirical philosophy. He promotes a study of human nature based on observation and experience, challenging conventional beliefs about causality, identity, and the nature of knowledge. Hume's writing is distinguished by its empiricism, wit, and clarity. His writings, which provide insights into human nature, the basis of knowledge, and the difficulties of moral and aesthetic judgments, continue to have an impact on the domains of philosophy and economics. The compilation offers a thorough understanding of Hume's contributions to philosophy and is still studied because of its significant influence on Western thought.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Signet Book
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential David Hume written by David Hume and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1969 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hume (1711-76) is the most important philosopher ever to have written in English. Although best known for his contributions to epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion, Hume also made substantial and influential contributions to psychology and the philosophy of mind, ethics, the philosophy of science, political and economic theory, political and social history, and, to a lesser extent, aesthetic and literary theory. Of all of Hume's writings, the philosophically most profound is undoubtedly his first, "A Treatise on Human Nature." "Hume on Morality" introduces and assesses: Hume's life and the background of the "Treatise"; the ideas and text in the "Treatise"; and Hume's continuing importance to philosophy.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486113051
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding written by David Hume and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of philosophy's most widely read books and the best introduction to Hume's other works, this 1748 treatise offers an accessible account of the author's provocative notions about the limitations of the mind. Topics include the logical coexistence of free will and determinism and the deficiencies of religious doctrine.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Hume: On Human Understanding written by David Hume and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The argument of the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding proceeds by a series of incremental steps, separated into chapters which logically succeed one another. After expounding his epistemology, Hume explains how to apply his principles to specific topics. This book has proven highly influential, both in the years that would immediately follow and today. Immanuel Kant points to it as the book which woke him from his self-described "dogmatic slumber."

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essence of Hume's Philosophy written by David Hume and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-03 with total page 758 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".

Author : Alan Bailey
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826485083
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hume's 'Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding' written by Alan Bailey and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-12-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides introductions to classic works of philosophy. This book guides the reader to an understanding of the text as a whole, exploring the reception and influence of this philosophical work.