David Hume and the culture of Scottish Newtonianism : methodology and ideology in Enlightenment inquiry
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David Hume and the culture of Scottish Newtonianism : methodology and ideology in Enlightenment inquiry
（Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 259）
Brill, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-218) and indexes
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David Hume has a canonical place in the context of moral philosophy, but his insights are less frequently discussed in relation to natural philosophy. David Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism offers a discussion of Hume's methodological and ideological commitments in matters of knowledge as reflected in his language and outlook. Tamas Demeter argues that several aspects of Hume's moral philosophy reflect post-Newtonian tendencies in the aftermath of the Opticks, and show affinities with Newton-inspired Scottish physiology and chemistry. Consequently, when Hume describes his project as an 'anatomy of the mind' he uses a metaphor that expresses his commitment to study human cognitive and affective functioning on analogy with active and organic nature, and not with the Principia's world of inert matter.
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE UNITY OF SCOTTISH NEWTONIANISM
I. The Conceptual Unity of Scottish Newtonianism
II. The Methodological Unity of Scottish Newtonianism
METHODOLOGICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL CONTEXT
III. Hume's Copernican Turn
IV. Newton's Method and Hume's Science of Man
V. Hume and the Changing Ideology of Natural Inquiry
HUME'S METHOD AND PROJECT
VI. The Experimental Method
VII. A Chemistry of Perceptions
VIII. An Anatomy and Physiology of the Mind
MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND NORMATIVE MORALITY
IX. Three Perspectives on Human Action
X. The Objectivity of Moral Cognition and Philosophy
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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