Critical Reflections on Hume's Treatment of the Imagination
Author : David Milton Wadsworth
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 1980
Category : A priori
ISBN :
Author : David Milton Wadsworth
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 1980
Category : A priori
ISBN :
Author : Timothy M. Costelloe
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 28,1 MB
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1474436412
Defines the cutting-edge of scholarship on ancient Greek history employing methods from social science
Author : Annette C. BAIER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674020383
Annette Baier's aim is to make sense of David Hume's Treatise as a whole. Hume's family motto, which appears on his bookplate, was True to the End. Baier argues that it is not until the end of the Treatise that we get his full story about truth and falsehood, reason and folly. By the end, we can see the cause to which Hume has been true throughout the work. Baier finds Hume's Treatise of Human Nature to be a carefully crafted literary and philosophical work which itself displays a philosophical progress of sentiments. His starting place is an overly abstract intellectualism that deliberately thrusts passions and social concerns into the background. In the three interrelated books of the Treatise, his self-understander proceeds through partial successes and dramatic failures to emerge with new-found optimism, expecting that the exact knowledge the morally self-conscious anatomist of human nature can acquire will itself improve and correct our vision of morality. Baier describes how, by turning philosophy toward human nature instead of toward God and the universe, Hume initiated a new philosophy, a broader discipline of reflection that can embrace Charles Darwin and Michel Foucault as well as William James and Sigmund Freud. Hume belongs both to our present and to our past.
Author : Jan Wilbanks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 18,55 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9401507090
The present work is, as its title indicates, a study of Hume's theory of imagination. Naturally, it is a study of a particular sort. It has a certain scope and limitations, takes a certain line of approach, exhibits certain emphases, has certain ends-in-view, etc. As an initial step in specifying the nature of this study, I shall indicate its central problem, i. e. , that problem to the solution of which the solutions of the various other problems with which it is concerned are merely means. The central problem of this study is that of determining how Hume's theory of im agination is related to, or involved in, the generic features and main lines of argument of his philosophy of the human understanding. The expression "philosophy of the human understanding" is obvious to allude to a restriction on the scope of this investigation. ly intended Actually, it is a title suggested to me by two of Hume's philosophical writings; and to anyone who is even modestly acquainted with these writings, its reference should be no mystery. Hume published the first two so-called "Books" of his A Treatise of Human Nature in 1739. The first of these two Books was entitled "Of the Human Understanding. " Nine years later, he published a work under the title, An Enquiry Con cerning Human Understanding.
Author : Tito Magri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0192679112
This book proposes a new and systematic interpretation of the mental nature, function and structure, and importance of the imagination in Book 1, 'Of the Understanding', of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature. The proposed interpretation has deeply revisionary implications for Hume's philosophy of mind and for his naturalism, epistemology, and stance to scepticism. The book remedies a surprising blindspot in Hume scholarship and contributes to the current, lively philosophical debate on imagination. Hume's philosophy, if rightly understood, gives suggestions about how to treat imagination as a mental natural kind, its cognitive complexity and variety of functions notwithstanding. Hume's imagination is a faculty of inference and the source of a distinctive kind of idea, which complements our sensible representations of objects. Our cognitive nature, if restricted to the representation of objects and of their relations, would leave ordinary and philosophical cognition seriously underdetermined and expose us to scepticism. Only the non-representational, inferential faculty of the imagination can put in place and vindicate ideas like causation, body, and self, which support our cognitive practices. The book reconstructs how Hume's naturalist inferentialism about the imagination develops this fundamental insight. Its five parts deal with the dualism of representation and inference; the explanation of generality and modality; the production of causal ideas; the production of spatial and temporal content, and the distinction of an external world of bodies and an internal one of selves; and the replacement of the understanding with imagination in the analysis of cognition and in epistemology.
Author : Willard Clark Gore
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Imagination
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Author : Saul Traiger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 140515313X
This Guide provides students with the scholarly andinterpretive tools they need to understand Hume’s ATreatise of Human Nature and its influence on modernphilosophy. A student guide to Hume’s A Treatise of HumanNature. Focuses on recent developments in Hume scholarship. Covers topics such as the formulation, reception and scope ofthe Treatise, imagination and memory, the passions, moralsentiments, and the role of sympathy. All the chapters are newly written by Hume scholars. Each chapter guides the reader through a portion of theTreatise, explaining the central arguments and keycontemporary interpretations of those arguments.
Author : Wayne Waxman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 2003-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521541183
A comprehensive analysis and re-evaluation of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature.
Author : Maurice Hamington
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0252091469
Until now, ethicists have said little about the body, limiting their comments on it to remarks made in passing or, at best, devoting a chapter to the subject. Embodied Care is the first work to argue for the body's centrality to care ethics, doing so by analyzing our corporeality at the phenomenological level. It develops the idea that our bodies are central to our morality, paying particular attention to the ways we come to care for one another. Hamington's argues that human bodies are "built to care"; as a result, embodiment must be recognized as a central factor in moral consideration. He takes the reader on an exciting journey from modern care ethics to Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of the body and then to Jane Addams's social activism and philosophy. The ideas in Embodied Care do not lead to yet another competing theory of morality; rather, they progress through theory and case studies to suggest that no theory of morality can be complete without a full consideration of the body.
Author : Robert J. Fogelin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 042959030X
This work, first published in 1985, offers a general interpretation of Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature. Most Hume scholarship has either neglected or downplayed an important aspect of Hume’s position – his scepticism. This book puts that right, examining in close detail the sceptical arguments in Hume’s philosophy.