Radcliffe

HUME PASSION & ACTION C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ACADEMIC
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780199573295
• ISBN-10: 0199573298
• Artikelnr.: 50905896

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth S. Radcliffe is Professor of Philosophy at the College of William & Mary. Her research interests include Hume, early modern philosophy, theories of the passions, motivational psychology, practical reason, and ethics. She is editor of A Companion to Hume (Blackwell, 2008), co-editor of Late Modern Philosophy: Contemporary Readings with Commentary (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006), and author of many journal articles and book chapters. Radcliffe has served as Hume Society President, co-editor of the journal Hume Studies, Executive Director of the American Philosophical Association, and chair of the Departments of Philosophy at Santa Clara University and at the College of William & Mary.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Motives to Action
2: Hume's Argument for the Inertness of Reason
3: Belief: Some Complications
4: The Passions as Original Existences
5: Morality and Motivation
6: Motivational Dynamics and Regulation of The Passions
Conclusion: The Passions in Hume's Project
Appendix: The Passions and Reason in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Philosophy