The new Hume debate

Author(s)

• Read, Rupert J.
• Richman, Kenneth A.

Bibliographic Information

The new Hume debate

edited by Rupert Read and Kenneth A. Richman

Routledge, 2000

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

For decades scholars thought they knew Hume's position on the existence of causes and objects he was a sceptic. However, this received view has been thrown into question by the `new' readings of Hume as a sceptical realist. For philosophers, students of philosophy and others interested in theories of causation and their history, The New Hume Debate is the first book to fully document the most influential contemporary readings of Hume's work. Throughout, the volume brings the debate beyond textual issues in Hume to contemporary philosophical issues concerning causation and knowledge of the external world and issues in the history of philosophy, offering the reader a model for scholarly debate. This revised paperback edition includes three new chapters by Janet Broughton, Peter Kail and Peter Millican. Contributors: Kenneth A. Richman, Barry Stroud, Galen Strawson, Kenneth P. Winkler, John P. Wright, Simon Blackburn, Edward Craig, Martin Bell, Daniel Flage, Anne Jaap Jacobson, Rupert Read, Janet Broughton, Peter Millican, Peter Kail.

Table of Contents

• Notes on contributors
• Preface
• Preface to the New Edition
• Acknowledgements and permissions
• Reference notes1. Debating the New Hume Kenneth Richman2. 'Gilding or staining' the world with 'sentiments' and 'phantasms' Barry Stroud3. David Hume: Objects and power Galen Strawson4. The New Hume Kenneth P. Winkler5. Hume's causal realism: recovering a traditional interpretation John P. Wright6. Hume and thick connexions Simon Blackburn7. Hume on causality: projectivist and realist? Edward Craig8. Sceptical doubts concerning Hume's causal realism Martin Bell9. Relative ideas re-viewed Daniel Flage10. From cognitive science to a post-Cartesian text
• what did Hume really say? Anne Jaap Jacobson11. The new antagonists of 'the New Hume': on the relevance of Goodman and Wittgenstein to the New Hume debate Rupert Read12. Our Aim in All Our Studies Janet Broughton13. Against the New Hume Peter Millican14. How to understand Hume's realism P.J.E. Kail
• Bibliography
• Citation index
• Name index
• Subject index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA49016155
• ISBN:
  • 0415238846
• LCCN: 99086749
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 210 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B1498
  • DC21 : 192
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Hume, David, 1711-1776