The Cambridge Companion To Humes Treatise

Author : Donald C. Ainslie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521821673
Total Pages : 415 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Hume's Treatise written by Donald C. Ainslie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion evaluates Hume's philosophical arguments in A Treatise of Human Nature and considers their historical context, particularly within British empiricism.

Author : John P. Wright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521833760
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hume's 'A Treatise of Human Nature' written by John P. Wright and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the development of Hume's ideas and their relation to eighteenth-century theories of the imagination and passions.

Author : David Fate Norton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521677343
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Hume written by David Fate Norton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteen essays in this second edition of this highly popular Companion address all aspects of Hume's wide-ranging thought.

Author : Kenneth P. Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825186
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Berkeley written by Kenneth P. Winkler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-19 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Berkeley is one of the greatest and most influential modern philosophers. In defending the immaterialism for which he is most famous, he redirected modern thinking about the nature of objectivity and the mind's capacity to come to terms with it. Along the way, he made striking and influential proposals concerning the psychology of the senses, the workings of language, the aims of science, and the scope of mathematics. In this Companion volume a team of distinguished authors not only examines Berkeley's achievements but also his neglected contributions to moral and political philosophy, his writings on economics and development, and his defense of religious commitment and religious life. The volume places Berkeley's achievements in the context of the many social and intellectual traditions - philosophical, scientific, ethical, and religious - to which he fashioned a distinctive response.

Author : Vere Chappell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139824961
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Locke written by Vere Chappell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-24 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. The essays in this volume provide a systematic survey of Locke's philosophy informed by the most recent scholarship. They cover Locke's theory of ideas, his philosophies of body, mind, language, and religion, his theory of knowledge, his ethics, and his political philosophy. There are also chapters on Locke's life and subsequent influence. New readers and non-specialists will find this the most convenient, accessible guide to Locke currently available.

Author : Annette C. BAIER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674020383
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Progress of Sentiments written by Annette C. BAIER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annette Baier's aim is to make sense of David Hume's Treatise as a whole. Hume's family motto, which appears on his bookplate, 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. Baier finds Hume's Treatise of Human Nature to be a carefully crafted literary and philosophical work which itself displays a philosophical progress of sentiments. His starting place is an overly abstract intellectualism that deliberately thrusts passions and social concerns into the background. In the three interrelated books of the Treatise, his self-understander proceeds through partial successes and dramatic failures to emerge with new-found optimism, expecting that the exact knowledge the morally self-conscious anatomist of human nature can acquire will itself improve and correct our vision of morality. Baier describes how, by turning philosophy toward human nature instead of toward God and the universe, Hume initiated a new philosophy, a broader discipline of reflection that can embrace Charles Darwin and Michel Foucault as well as William James and Sigmund Freud. Hume belongs both to our present and to our past.

Author : Yuri Balashov
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415257817
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Science written by Yuri Balashov and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive anthology draws together writings by leading philosophers of science and will prove invaluable for any philosophy of science course.

Author : David Fate Norton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827782
Total Pages : 556 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Hume written by David Fate Norton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although best known for his contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, Hume also influenced developments in the philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, political and economic theory, political and social history, and aesthetic theory. The fifteen essays in this volume address all aspects of Hume's thought. The picture of him that emerges is that of a thinker who, though often critical to the point of scepticism, was nonetheless able to build on that scepticism a constructive, viable, and profoundly important view of the world. Also included in this volume are Hume's two brief autobiographies and a bibliography suited to those beginning their study of Hume. This second edition of one our most popular Companions includes six new essays and a new introduction, and the remaining essays have all been updated or revised.

Author : Lex Newman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827235
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Locke's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding' written by Lex Newman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-05 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1689, John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding is widely recognised as among the greatest works in the history of Western philosophy. The Essay puts forward a systematic empiricist theory of mind, detailing how all ideas and knowledge arise from sense experience. Locke was trained in mechanical philosophy and he crafted his account to be consistent with the best natural science of his day. The Essay was highly influential and its rendering of empiricism would become the standard for subsequent theorists. This Companion volume includes fifteen new essays from leading scholars. Covering the major themes of Locke's work, they explain his views while situating the ideas in the historical context of Locke's day and often clarifying their relationship to ongoing work in philosophy. Pitched to advanced undergraduates and graduate students, it is ideal for use in courses on early modern philosophy, British empiricism and John Locke.

Author : Robert J. Fogelin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042959030X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hume's Skepticism in the Treatise of Human Nature written by Robert J. Fogelin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, first published in 1985, offers a general interpretation of Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature. Most Hume scholarship has either neglected or downplayed an important aspect of Hume’s position – his scepticism. This book puts that right, examining in close detail the sceptical arguments in Hume’s philosophy.