Henry E. Allison

Custom and Reason in Hume

A Kantian Reading of the First Book of the Treatise

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Produktbeschreibung

Henry Allison offers a new understanding of Hume's theory of knowledge, as contained in the first book of his Treatise. Allison provides a comprehensive and detailed critical analysis of Hume's views on the subject, and an extensive comparison with Kant on a range of issues including space and time, causation, existence, and the self.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780199592029
• ISBN-10: 0199592020
• Artikelnr.: 31791283

Autorenporträt

Henry E. Allison is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and Boston University

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Hume`s Elements
* 2: Hume`s Doctrine of Space and Time
* 3: Hume`s Epistemological Divide in the Treatise
* 4: "Whatever begins to be must have a cause of existence": Hume`s
Analysis and Kant`s Response
* 5: Hume`s Analysis of Inductive Inference
* 5: Appendix: Does Reason Beg or Command? Kant and Hume on Induction
and the Uniformity of Nature
* 6: Simple Conception, Existence, and Belief: Hume`s Analysis and the
Kantian Response
* 7: Causation, Necessary Connection, and Power
* 8: Hume on Scepticism Regarding Reason
* 9: Hume on Scepticism Regarding the Senses
* 10: Hume`s Natural History of Philosophy and Hume and Kant as
Philosophical Therapists
* 11: Hume`s Paralogisms
* 12: Hume`s Philosophical Insouciance
* Bibliography
* Index