238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the relationship between Hume's sceptical philosophy and his Newtonian ambition of founding a science of human nature. Assessing both received and 'new' readings of Hume's philosophy, Stanistreet offers a line of interpretation which, he argues, makes sense of many of the apparent conflicts and paradoxes in Hume's work and describes how well-known controversies concerning Hume's... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction; Science and the study of human nature; Ideas and association; Causality, reason and causal inference; Hume and the new Hume; Hume’s scepticisim regarding the senses; Hume’s true philosophy and Reid’s common sense; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Paul Stanistreet
