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Philosophers past and present : selected essays / [compiled by] Barry Stroud.
LIBRA B1498 .S783 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stroud, Barry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hume, David, 1711-1776--Influence.
- Hume, David.
- Hume, David, 1711-1776.
- Philosophy--History--20th century.
- Philosophy.
- Naturalism.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 338 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- This volume of previously uncollected essays by Barry Stroud explores central issues and ideas in the work of individual philosophers, ranging from Descartes, Berkeley, Locke, and Hume to Quine, Burge, McDowell, Goldman, Fogelin, and Sosa in our own day. Seven of the essays focus on David Hume, and examine the sources and implications of his 'naturalism' and his 'scepticism'. Three others deal with the legacy of that 'naturalism' in the twentieth century. In each case Stroud moves beyond providing a description of historical contexts and developments, and confronts the philosophical issues as they present themselves to the philosophers in question. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Our Debt to Descartes 11
- 2 Berkeley v. Locke on Primary Qualities 29
- 3 Colours and Powers 49
- 4 The Study of Human Nature and the Subjectivity of Value 65
- 5 Hume's an Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 103
- 6 Ayer's Hume 117
- 7 Hume's Scepticism: Natural Instincts and Philosophical Reflection 144
- 8 "Gilding or Staining" the World with "Sentiments" and "Phantasms" 167
- 9 The Constraints of Hume's Naturalism 189
- 10 Practical Reasoning 207
- 11 The Charm of Naturalism 223
- 12 The Transparency of 'Naturalism' 240
- 13 Anti-Individualism and Scepticism 256
- 14 Sense-Experience and the Grounding of Thought 273
- 15 The 'Unity of Cognition' and the Explanation of Mathematical Knowledge 290
- 16 Contemporary Pyrrhonism 307
- 17 Perceptual Knowledge and Epistemological Satisfaction 322.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0199608598
- 9780199608591
- OCLC:
- 707267274
- Publisher Number:
- 99945576900
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