Hume's Scepticism

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Peter S. Fosl offers a radical interpretation of Hume as a thoroughgoing sceptic on epistemological, metaphysical and doxastic grounds. He first contextualises Hume's thought in the sceptical tradition and goes on to interpret the conceptual apparatus of his work - including the Treatise, Enquiries, Essays, History, Dialogues and letters.

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Full title :Hume's Scepticism

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Publication Date:2019.

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Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
Place of Publication:Edinburgh
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019.

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Description:1 online resource (393 pages)

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ISBN:9781474451147, 1474451144
oclc:on1148863470
LC Classification:B837
Dewey Decimal:192

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Introduction -- Abbreviations and Conventions -- Introduction: Into Those Immense Depths -- Part I Academic and Pyrrhonian Scepticism, Ancient and Modern -- 1 Hume and Ancient Academic Scepticism -- 1.1 Doubt in the Old Academy -- 1.2 Probabilism, Fallibilism and Belief in the Middle and New Academies -- 1.3 The Theoretical Sceptics: Clitomachian and Metrodorian Scepticism -- 1.4 Conclusion -- 2 Hume and the Legacy of Academic Scepticism -- 2.1 The Career of Academic Scepticism -- 2.2 Hume's Academic Scepticism -- 2.3 Conclusion

3 Hume and Ancient Pyrrhonian Scepticism -- 3.1 Origins: From Pyrrho to Sextus Empiricus -- 3.2 The Agogê of Appearances -- 3.3 Negative Pyrrhonism: Subversion, Suspension and Silence -- 3.4 Positive Pyrrhonism: Constructive Philosophical Theory -- 3.5 A General Framework for Pyrrhonian Scepticism -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4 Hume and the Legacy of Pyrrhonian Scepticism -- 4.1 The Career of Pyrrhonism -- 4.2 Pyrrhonism in Hume -- 4.3 Conclusion -- Part II Hume's True Sceptical Philosophy -- 5 Phûsis: The Fatalities of Appearance -- 5.1 The Fluvial and the Necessary: The 'Current of Nature'

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