Hume : general philosophy
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Hume : general philosophy
（The international library of critical essays in the history of philosophy）
Ashgate, Dartmouth, c2000
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Hume is regarded as one of the most important philosophers to have written in the English language. The essays collected in this volume focus almost entirely on Hume's philosophy as found in Book I of "A Treatise of Human Nature" (1739-40) and "Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" (1748).
Table of Contents
- Methodology: the naturalism of Book I of Hume's "Treatise", David Pears
- Hume's new science of the mind, John Biro. Ideas and impressions: the difference between feeling and thinking, Stephen Everson
- priority and separability in Hume's empiricism, Don Garrett. Logic, knowledge and demonstrative reasoning: Hume and the logicians, Charles Echelbarger
- Hume on demonstration, David Owen. Belief and probable reasoning: Hume on reason
- Hume's scepticism about causal inference, Janet Broughton
- Hume's argument concerning induction - structure and interpretation, Peter Millican
- naturalism, normativity and scepticism in Hume's account of belief. Miracles: miracles and probabilities, George Schlesinger
- the probabilities in Hume's argument against miracles. Causation and the "new Hume": Hume's academic scepticism, John Wright
- Hume and thick connections, Simon Blackburn
- the new Hume, Ken Winkler. Personal identity: Hume's theory of the self revisited, Terence Penelhum
- Hume's self-doubts about personal identity, Don Garrett
- personal identity and the passions, Jane MacIntyre. Scepticism: Hume's scepticism about reason, William Morris
- Hume's scepticism - natural instincts and philosophical reflection, Barry Stroud
- how a sceptic may live scepticism, David Fate Norton.
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