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Hume variations / Jerry A. Fodor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fodor, Jerry A., author.
- Series:
- Lines of thought.
- Lines of thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hume, David, 1711-1776. Treatise of human nature.
- Hume, David.
- Philosophy of mind.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (165 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 2003.
- Summary:
- Jerry Fodor claims Hume's 'Treatise of Human Nature' as the foundational document of cognitive science, showing how it launched the project of constructing an empirical psychology on the basis of a representational theory of mind.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Old Lamps for New
- 1. Introduction: Hume's Cartesian Naturalism
- 2. Impressions
- 3. Simple Concepts
- 4. Complex Concepts (occasional Wittgensteinians Notwithstanding)
- 5. Imagination
- 6. Conclusion: Hume's Program (and Ours).
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 0-19-170043-6
- 0-19-928733-3
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