Book Description
The authors demonstrate that Hume's views can stand up to contemporary criticism and are relevant to current debates on causality.
Author : Tom L. Beauchamp
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
The authors demonstrate that Hume's views can stand up to contemporary criticism and are relevant to current debates on causality.
Author : Helen Beebee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134544715
Causation is one of the most important and enduring topics in philosophy, going back to Aristotle. In this important book, Helen Beebee covers all the major debates and issues in the philosophy of causation.
Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 2013-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691151172
Immanuel Kant famously said that he was awoken from his "dogmatic slumbers," and led to question the possibility of metaphysics, by David Hume's doubts about causation. Because of this, many philosophers have viewed Hume's influence on Kant as limited to metaphysics. More recently, some philosophers have questioned whether even Kant's metaphysics was really motivated by Hume. In Knowledge, Reason, and Taste, renowned Kant scholar Paul Guyer challenges both of these views. He argues that Kant's entire philosophy--including his moral philosophy, aesthetics, and teleology, as well as his metaphysics--can fruitfully be read as an engagement with Hume. In this book, the first to describe and assess Hume's influence throughout Kant's philosophy, Guyer shows where Kant agrees or disagrees with Hume, and where Kant does or doesn't appear to resolve Hume's doubts. In doing so, Guyer examines the progress both Kant and Hume made on enduring questions about causes, objects, selves, taste, moral principles and motivations, and purpose and design in nature. Finally, Guyer looks at questions Kant and Hume left open to their successors.
Author : Rupert Read
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 2002-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134555288
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Constantine Sandis
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 28,5 MB
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Act (Philosophy)
ISBN : 9781138283787
In the first ever book-length treatment of David Hume's philosophy of action, Constantine Sandis brings together seemingly disparate aspects of Hume's work to present an understanding of human action that is much richer than previously assumed. Sandis showcases Hume's interconnected views on action and its causes by situating them within a wider vision of our human understanding of personal identity, causation, freedom, historical explanation, and morality. In so doing, he also relates key aspects of the emerging picture to contemporary concerns within the philosophy of action and moral psychology, including debates between Humeans and anti-Humeans about both 'motivating' and 'normative' reasons. Character and Causation takes the form of a series of essays which collectively argue that Hume's overall project proceeds by way of a soft conceptual revisionism that emerges from his Copy Principle. This involves re-calibrating our philosophical ideas of all that agency involves to fit a scheme that more readily matches the range of impressions that human beings actually have. On such a reading, once we rid ourselves of a certain kind of metaphysical ambition we are left with a perfectly adequate account of how it is that people can act in character, freely, and for good reasons. The resulting picture is one that both unifies Hume's practical and theoretical philosophy and radically transforms contemporary philosophy of action for the better.
Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Author : Angela M. Coventry
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 31,96 MB
Release : 2006-06-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1847142222
Causation has always been a central topic in the history of philosophy. Many theories causation have been advanced, but not one has approached anything like general acceptance. Yet the concept of causation is prevalent in many areas of contemporary philosophy: there are the causal theories of language, of action, of personal identity, of knowledge, of perception, of scientific explanation, and of reference. If causation is doing all this philosophical work, it seems essential to strive for an intelligible account of what a 'cause' actually is. One obvious place to start is Hume's analysis of causation, which is generally thought to be the most significant and influential single contribution to the topic. But despite the widely recognized importance of his analysis, many opposing interpretations surround his causal theory. There are some commentators who believe that his theory is a version of realism and many others who argue that it is a version of anti-realism. There is considerable textual evidence for, and also against, each interpretation. Angela Coventry develops a more conciliatory approach. She argues that Hume's causal theory is best understood as 'quasi-realist' - an intermediate position between realism and anti-realism. This makes sense of some seemingly contradictory passages in Hume's work and also provides an answer to a major objection which is commonly thought to devastate his causal theory. Coventry then goes on to outline a general, topic-independent, conception of quasi-realism as distinct from realistm and anti-realism that allows it to stand as a consistent third alternative.
Author : Colin Howson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,57 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198250371
This volume offers a solution to one of the central, unsolved problems of Western philosophy, that of induction. It explores the implications of Hume's argument that successful prediction tells us nothing about the truth of the predicting theory.
Author : Galen Strawson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 33,28 MB
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199608504
The Evident Connexion presents a bold new reading of David Hume's famous 'bundle' theory of the self or mind, and his later rejection of it. Galen Strawson illuminates the 'uniting principle' of Hume's philosophy and argues that the bundle theory does not, as widely supposed, claim that there are no subjects of experience.
Author : David Hume
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 2024-09-09T19:27:34Z
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
A foundational text in empiricism and skepticism, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding comprehensively examines the nature of human cognition, the limits of human knowledge, and the role of reason in understanding the world. Hume argues that our understanding of the world is based on custom, habit, and experience, rather than pure reason or innate knowledge. He challenges the notions of causality, induction, and the concepts of connections between cause and effect, arguing that our understanding of these relationships is based on probability and custom. It lays the groundwork for modern philosophy, emphasizing the importance of empirical evidence and the role of human psychology in shaping our beliefs and understanding of reality. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.