Hume's 'A Treatise of Human Nature'

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.

The Riddle of Hume's Treatise

The Riddle of Hume's Treatise
Author: Paul Russell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2010-06-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199751528

It is widely held that Hume's Treatise has little or nothing to do with problems of religion. Contrary to this view, Paul Russell argues that it is irreligious aims and objectives that are fundamental to the Treatise and account for its underlying unity and coherence

Hume's Science of Human Nature

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.

A Progress of Sentiments

A Progress of Sentiments
Author: Annette Baier
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 1991-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780674713864

Baier aims to make sense of Hume's Treatise as a whole. Hume’s family motto was “True to the End.” Baier argues that it is not until the end of the Treatise that we get his full story about “truth and falsehood, reason and folly.” By the end, we can see the cause to which Hume has been true throughout the work.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature
Author: David Hume
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780872202290

A landmark of enlightenment though, HUme's An Enquiry Concerning Human understanding is accompanied here by two shorter works that shed light on it: A Letter from a Gentlemen to His Friend in Edinburgh, hume's response to those accusing him of atheism, of advocating extreme scepticism, and of undermining the foundations of morality; and his Abstract of A Treatise of HUman Nature, which anticipates discussions developed in the Enquiry. In his concise Introduction, Eric Steinberg explores the conditions that led to write the Enquiry and the work's important relationship to Book 1 of Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature.

The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time

The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time
Author: Robert McCrum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781903385838

Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --

The Simple Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume Book 1

The Simple Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume Book 1
Author: Juan Dalisay Jr.
Publisher: Pantrypoints Technologies
Total Pages: 313
Release:
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

This book simplifies Book 1 of David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature to make it more concise and readable. It optimizes Hume's content by organizing each idea into bullet points with sub-ideas as sub-bullets, all under topic headings, without losing the original idea. Book 1 introduces Hume's philosophy that every perception is either an idea or impression, which we then process through our reason in order to create knowledge. This version replaces archaic words like "extension & duration", "vacuum", and "necessary connection" into modern words as "space & time", "void", and "consequence" in order to make them easier to understand. This book also serves as the foundation of our proposed wave-based science of Superphysics which is the modern implementation of Hume's Science of Man. This new science can create new technologies in physics, based on the principles of the emptiness of space and time, and in medicine and economics, based on the principles of reason. For more information about Superphysics, visit https://superphysics.one