Reading Hume On Human Understanding Essays On The First Enquiry

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 : David Hume
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486113051
Total Pages : 116 pages
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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 : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780760755921
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding written by David Hume and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 2004-04-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the thesis of a thinker who was a scientist, psychologist, metaphysician, and skeptic. The product of both youthful fire and mature consideration, this title contains everything of Consequence relating to the understanding. It endeavors to be nothing less than the construction of an anatomy of human nature.

Author : Alan Bailey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441107908
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hume's 'Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding' written by Alan Bailey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-24 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hume is widely considered to be the greatest British philosopher and his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is the most frequently studied of all his works - a key text in the study of empiricist thought. This is a hugely important and exciting, yet challenging, piece of philosophical writing. In Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Reader's Guide, Allen Bailey and Dan O'Brien explain the philosophical background against which the book was written and the key themes inherent in the text. The book then guides the reader to a clear understanding of the text as a whole, before exploring the reception and influence of this classic philosophical work. This is the ideal companion to study of this most influential and challenging of texts.

Author : David Hume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1748 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Hume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 419 pages
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Download or read book Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enquiry concerning the principles of morals / Hume, David, 1711-1776.

Author : Stephen Buckle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139461923
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding written by Stephen Buckle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1748, is a concise statement of Hume's central philosophical positions. It develops an account of human mental functioning which emphasizes the limits of human knowledge and the extent of our reliance on (non-rational) mental habits. It then applies that account to questions of free will and religious knowledge before closing with a defence of moderate scepticism. This volume, which presents a modified version of the definitive 1772 edition of the work, offers helpful annotation for the student reader, together with an introduction that sets this profoundly influential work in its philosophical and historical contexts. The volume also includes a selection of other works by Hume that throw light on both the circumstances of the work's genesis and its key themes and arguments.

Author : David Hume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
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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 1907 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872202290
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature written by David Hume and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark of enlightenment though, HUme's An Enquiry Concerning Human understanding is accompanied here by two shorter works that shed light on it: A Letter from a Gentlemen to His Friend in Edinburgh, hume's response to those accusing him of atheism, of advocating extreme scepticism, and of undermining the foundations of morality; and his Abstract of A Treatise of HUman Nature, which anticipates discussions developed in the Enquiry. In his concise Introduction, Eric Steinberg explores the conditions that led to write the Enquiry and the work's important relationship to Book 1 of Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature.

Author : Stephen Buckle
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199271143
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hume's Enlightenment Tract written by Stephen Buckle and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004-02-19 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to Hume's wishes, 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding' has long lived in the shadow of its predecessor 'A Treatise of Human Nature'. Stephen Buckle presents the 'Enquiry' in a fresh light.