A Bibliography of Hume's Writings and Early Responses

A Bibliography of Hume's Writings and Early Responses
Author: James Fieser
Publisher: James Fieser
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

This work is a supplement to the 10-volume series "Early Responses to Hume", which is an edited and annotated collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critical reactions to Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) . Both a philosopher and historian, he was infamous in his day for his skeptical views on human nature, knowledge, metaphysics, and religion.

British Philosophers, 1500-1799

British Philosophers, 1500-1799
Author: Philip Breed Dematteis
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Essays on British philosophers engaged with philosophical topics and used methods that were both different from and continuous with those that were taken up by British philosophers of the next two centuries. Major focus on the influence of Francis Bacon, who launched the era's most influential British attack on the traditional theories and practices of philosophy itself offering an alternative vision of a profoundly different and more powerful form of philosophy.

Hume's Abject Failure

Hume's Abject Failure
Author: John Earman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2000-11-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199880859

This vital study offers a new interpretation of Hume's famous "Of Miracles," which notoriously argues against the possibility of miracles. By situating Hume's popular argument in the context of the eighteenth-century debate on miracles, Earman shows Hume's argument to be largely unoriginal and chiefly without merit where it is original. Yet Earman constructively conceives how progress can be made on the issues that Hume's essay so provocatively posed about the ability of eyewitness testimony to establish the credibility of marvelous and miraculous events.

The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers

The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers
Author: J. O. Urmson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1991
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0415078830

This fully revised third edition of this Concise Encyclopedia brings it completely up-to-date. Featuring lively and engaging entries by some of the leading philosophers of our age, it is a readable reference work and engaging introduction.