Hume's true scepticism
David Hume is famous as a sceptic but the nature of his scepticism is hard to pin down. Donald Ainslie provides a sustained interpretation of Hume's deepest engagement with sceptical arguments, which argues that, while reason shows that we ought not to believe the verdicts of reason or the senses, we do so nonetheless.
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- Full title :Hume's true scepticism / Donald C. Ainslie.
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David Hume is famous as a sceptic but the nature of his scepticism is hard to pin down. Donald Ainslie provides a sustained interpretation of Hume's deepest engagement with sceptical arguments, which argues that, while reason shows that we ought not to believe the verdicts of reason or the senses, we do so nonetheless.
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- Publication Date:©2015
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2015
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- Description:1 online resource
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- ISBN:9780191064197, 019106419X, 9780191809224, 0191809225
- oclc:ocn918841503
- LC Classification:B1499.R45
- Dewey Decimal:210.1
Table of Contents
Total scepticism and the challenge to reason -- The phenomenology of sensory experience -- Coherence, constancy, and the belief in continuing objects -- Philosophical reflection on sensory belief -- Ancient philosophy : substances and souls -- Modern philosophy : persons and perceptions -- True scepticism -- Second thoughts.
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