1st Edition
Hume's Science of Human Nature Scientific Realism, Reason, and Substantial Explanation
Introduction
Chapter 1: Two Case Studies: The Impression-Idea and Simple-Complex Distinctions
Chapter 2: Hume’s Scientific Realism
Chapter 3: The Course of Science: Substance, Language, and Reason
Chapter 4: The Science of Body
Chapter 5: Necessary Connection and Substantial Explanation
Chapter 6: Explanation and Personal Identity in the Appendix
Biography
David Landy is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Kant’s Inferentialism: The Case Against Hume (Routledge, 2015).
"Hume’s Science of Human Nature offers, and capably defends, a deeply original way of understanding Hume’s theoretical framework. The interpretation renders Hume’s naturalistic project a much more sophisticated endeavour than typically thought. It is an excellent and welcome addition to the literature."
-Hsueh Qu, National University of Singapore"Landy does an outstanding job of highlighting the significance of some long-standing debates regarding Hume’s theory of representation by showing how they affect important questions about Hume’s account of scientific explanation and science in general." -Miren Boehm, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
