Hume's True Scepticism

Hume's True Scepticism
Author: Donald C. Ainslie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2015
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199593868

Provides a sustained interpretation of Part 4 of Book 1 of Hume's Treatise, arguing that Hume uses our reactions to the sceptical arguments as evidence in favor of his model of the mind.

Consciousness, Time, and Scepticism in Hume’s Thought

Consciousness, Time, and Scepticism in Hume’s Thought
Author: Lorne Falkenstein
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2024-04-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1040015646

David Hume’s philosophical work presents the reader with a perplexing mix of constructive accounts of empirically guided belief and destructive sceptical arguments against all belief. This book reconciles this conflict by showing that Hume intended his scepticism to be remedial. It immunizes us against the influence of “unphilosophical” causes of belief, determining us to proportion our beliefs to the evidence. In making this case, this book develops Humean positions on topics Hume did not discuss in detail but that are of interest to contemporary philosophers: consciousness and the unity of consciousness, temporal experience, visual spatial perception, the experience of colour and other qualia, objective experience, and spatially extended minds. It also challenges currently accepted interpretations of Hume’s views on the finite divisibility of space and time, vacuum, the duration of unchanging objects, and identity over time. It deals with criticisms of Hume that were raised by his contemporaries, notably by Thomas Reid, draws attention to earlier seventeenth‐ and eighteenth‐century work that has bearing on the interpretation of Hume’s thought, and compares Hume’s achievements with those of later nineteenth‐century psychologists and philosophers. Consciousness, Time, and Scepticism in Hume’s Thought will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in Hume, history of philosophy, and early modern theories of perception, time, and consciousness.

Hume's Theory of Consciousness

Hume's Theory of Consciousness
Author: Wayne Waxman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2003-09-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521541183

A comprehensive analysis and re-evaluation of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Author: David Hume
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2019-04-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 8027303893

"An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" is a book by David Hume created as a revision of an earlier work, Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature". The argument of the Enquiry proceeds by a series of incremental steps, separated into chapters which logically succeed one another. After expounding his epistemology, Hume explains how to apply his principles to specific topics. This book has proven highly influential, both in the years that would immediately follow and today. Immanuel Kant points to it as the book which woke him from his self-described "dogmatic slumber."

Imagination in Hume's Philosophy

Imagination in Hume's Philosophy
Author: Timothy M. Costelloe
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2018-03-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1474436412

Defines the cutting-edge of scholarship on ancient Greek history employing methods from social science.

Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment

Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment
Author: Ryu Susato
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2015-09-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0748699813

Demonstrates the uniqueness of Hume as an Enlightenment thinker, illustrating how his 'spirit of scepticism' often leads him into seemingly paradoxical positions. This book will be of interest to Hume scholars, intellectual historians of 17th- to 19th-century Europe and those interested in the Enlightenment more widely.

The Cambridge Companion to Hume's Treatise

The Cambridge Companion to Hume's Treatise
Author: Donald C. Ainslie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2015-01-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0521821673

This Companion evaluates Hume's philosophical arguments in A Treatise of Human Nature and considers their historical context, particularly within British empiricism.

The Evident Connexion

The Evident Connexion
Author: Galen Strawson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2011-05-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199608504

The Evident Connexion presents a bold new reading of David Hume's famous 'bundle' theory of the self or mind, and his later rejection of it. Galen Strawson illuminates the 'uniting principle' of Hume's philosophy and argues that the bundle theory does not, as widely supposed, claim that there are no subjects of experience.