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Hume's reason / David Owen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Owen, David, 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hume, David, 1711-1776--Contributions in concept of reason.
- Hume, David.
- Reason--History--18th century.
- Reason.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 234 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- David Owen, a well-known Humean, explores Hume's account of reason and its role in human understanding in the context of other early modern philosophers.
- Contents:
- Descartes's new theory of reasoning
- Locke on reasoning
- Hume and ideas: relations and association
- Intuition, certainty, and demonstrative reasoning
- Probable reasoning: the negative argument
- Belief an the development of Hume's account of probable reasoning
- Reason, belief, and scepticism
- The limits and warrant of reason.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-229) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-159815-1
- 0-19-151939-1
- 1-282-05190-3
- 9786612051906
- OCLC:
- 922954107
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