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Knowledge, Reason, and Taste
Author | : Paul Guyer |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2013-12-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0691151172 |
Immanuel Kant famously said that he was awoken from his "dogmatic slumbers," and led to question the possibility of metaphysics, by David Hume's doubts about causation. Because of this, many philosophers have viewed Hume's influence on Kant as limited to metaphysics. More recently, some philosophers have questioned whether even Kant's metaphysics was really motivated by Hume. In Knowledge, Reason, and Taste, renowned Kant scholar Paul Guyer challenges both of these views. He argues that Kant's entire philosophy--including his moral philosophy, aesthetics, and teleology, as well as his metaphysics--can fruitfully be read as an engagement with Hume. In this book, the first to describe and assess Hume's influence throughout Kant's philosophy, Guyer shows where Kant agrees or disagrees with Hume, and where Kant does or doesn't appear to resolve Hume's doubts. In doing so, Guyer examines the progress both Kant and Hume made on enduring questions about causes, objects, selves, taste, moral principles and motivations, and purpose and design in nature. Finally, Guyer looks at questions Kant and Hume left open to their successors.
Hume, Reason and Morality
Author | : Sophie Botros |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2006-04-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134322178 |
Covering an important theme in Humean studies, this book focuses on Hume's hugely influential attempt in book three of his Treatise of Human Nature to derive the conclusion that morality is a matter of feeling, not reason, from its link with action. Claiming that Hume's argument contains a fundamental contradiction that has gone unnoticed in modern debate, this fascinating volume contains a refreshing combination of historical-scholarly work and contemporary analysis that seeks to expose this contradiction and therefore provide a significant contribution to current scholarship in the area. Sophie Botros begins by pointing out that a contradiction concerning whether reason can influence action, or is wholly powerless, occurs in the intermediary premiss. She then moves on to draw out the consequences for recent meta-ethics of the failure to acknowledge this contradiction. Finally, highlighting the root of the argument's power in an article of naturalistic dogma, she suggests how it may be possible to restore to our moral concepts their traditional and integral link with both truth and motivation. A significant and thought-provoking addition to this popular field of study, Hume, Reason and Morality is undoubtedly an important resource for moral philosophers interested in meta-ethics and practical reason, as well as Humean scholars.
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.
Hume's Science of Human Nature
Author | : David Landy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2019-12-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780367891718 |
Hume's Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing what he calls 'the science of human nature'. It argues that Hume understands scientific explanation as aiming at explaining the inductively-established universal regularities discovered in experience via an appeal to the nature of the substance underlying manifest phenomena. For years, scholars have taken Hume to employ a deliberately shallow and demonstrably untenable notion of scientific explanation. By contrast, Hume's Science of Human Nature sets out to update our understanding of Hume's methodology by using a more sophisticated picture of science as a model.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Author | : David Hume |
Publisher | : Standard Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2024-09-09T19:27:34Z |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
A foundational text in empiricism and skepticism, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding comprehensively examines the nature of human cognition, the limits of human knowledge, and the role of reason in understanding the world. Hume argues that our understanding of the world is based on custom, habit, and experience, rather than pure reason or innate knowledge. He challenges the notions of causality, induction, and the concepts of connections between cause and effect, arguing that our understanding of these relationships is based on probability and custom. It lays the groundwork for modern philosophy, emphasizing the importance of empirical evidence and the role of human psychology in shaping our beliefs and understanding of reality. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Reflecting Subjects
Author | : Jacqueline Anne Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198729529 |
Offers a reconstruction of Hume's social theory and examines his moral philosophy, account of social power, and system of ethics.
Hume's 'A Treatise of Human Nature'
Author | : John P. Wright |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2009-11-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521833760 |
Examines the development of Hume's ideas and their relation to eighteenth-century theories of the imagination and passions.
Character and Causation
Author | : Constantine Sandis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2018-12-11 |
Genre | : Act (Philosophy) |
ISBN | : 9781138283787 |
In the first ever book-length treatment of David Hume's philosophy of action, Constantine Sandis brings together seemingly disparate aspects of Hume's work to present an understanding of human action that is much richer than previously assumed. Sandis showcases Hume's interconnected views on action and its causes by situating them within a wider vision of our human understanding of personal identity, causation, freedom, historical explanation, and morality. In so doing, he also relates key aspects of the emerging picture to contemporary concerns within the philosophy of action and moral psychology, including debates between Humeans and anti-Humeans about both 'motivating' and 'normative' reasons. Character and Causation takes the form of a series of essays which collectively argue that Hume's overall project proceeds by way of a soft conceptual revisionism that emerges from his Copy Principle. This involves re-calibrating our philosophical ideas of all that agency involves to fit a scheme that more readily matches the range of impressions that human beings actually have. On such a reading, once we rid ourselves of a certain kind of metaphysical ambition we are left with a perfectly adequate account of how it is that people can act in character, freely, and for good reasons. The resulting picture is one that both unifies Hume's practical and theoretical philosophy and radically transforms contemporary philosophy of action for the better.