David Landy

Hume's Science of Human Nature (eBook, PDF)

Scientific Realism, Reason, and Substantial Explanation

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Hume's Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing what he calls 'the science of human nature'. It argues that Hume understands scientific explanation as aiming at explaining the inductively-established universal regularities discovered in experience via an appeal to the nature of the substance underlying manifest phenomena. For years, scholars have taken Hume to employ a deliberately shallow and demonstrably untenable notion of scientific explanation. By contrast, Hume's Science of Human Nature sets out to update our understanding of Hume's methodology by using a more sophisticated picture of science as a model.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351383257
• Artikelnr.: 49273793

Autorenporträt

David Landy is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Kant's Inferentialism: The Case Against Hume (Routledge, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Two Case Studies: The Impression-Idea and Simple-Complex
Distinctions
Chapter 2: Hume's Scientific Realism
Chapter 3: The Course of Science: Substance, Language, and Reason
Chapter 4: The Science of Body
Chapter 5: Necessary Connection and Substantial Explanation
Chapter 6: Explanation and Personal Identity in the Appendix