Hume's true scepticism

Hume's true scepticism

by Ainslie, Donald C.

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David Hume is famous as a sceptical philosopher but the nature of his scepticism is difficult to pin down. Hume's True Scepticism provides the first sustained interpretation of Part 4 of Book 1 of Hume's Treatise: his deepest engagement with sceptical arguments, in which he notes that, while reason shows that we ought not to believe the verdicts of reason or the senses, we do so nonetheless. Donald C. Ainslie addresses Hume's theory ofrepresentation ; his criticisms of Locke, Descartes, and oth…

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  • Full title :Hume's true scepticism / Donald C. Ainslie.

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David Hume is famous as a sceptical philosopher but the nature of his scepticism is difficult to pin down. Hume's True Scepticism provides the first sustained interpretation of Part 4 of Book 1 of Hume's Treatise: his deepest engagement with sceptical arguments, in which he notes that, while reason shows that we ought not to believe the verdicts of reason or the senses, we do so nonetheless. Donald C. Ainslie addresses Hume's theory ofrepresentation ; his criticisms of Locke, Descartes, and other predecessors ; his account of the imagination ; his understanding of perceptions and sensory belief ; and his bundle theory of the mind and his later rejection of it

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  • Publication Date:2015.

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  • Description:286 Seiten : : Illustrationen

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780199593866, 0199593868
  • oclc:ocn923088025
  • Dewey Decimal:149.73

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Hume, David Scepticisme Skepticism Skeptizismus Treatise of human nature (Hume, David)

Writers

Ainslie, Donald C.

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