Impressions of Hume / edited by M. Frasca-Spada and P. J. E. Kail.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frasca-Spada, Marina, editor.

Kail, P. J. E. (Peter J. E.), editor.

Series:

Mind Association Occasional

Mind Association occasional series Impressions of Hume

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hume, David, 1711-1776.

Hume, David.

Philosophy, Scottish--18th century.

Philosophy, Scottish.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 308 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Impressions of Hume' presents new essays from leading scholars in different philosophical, historiographical, and literary traditions to which Hume made defining contributions.

Contents:

Hume's intellectual development, 1711-1752 / M.A. Stewart

Waiting for Hume / Peter Lipton

Meeting the hare in her doubles : causal belief and general belief / R.M. Sainsbury

Transcendental empiricism? : Deleuze's reading of Hume / Martin Bell

Sympathy and comparison : two principles of human nature / Susan James

Hume's ethical conclusion / P.J.E. Kail

Hume's use of the rhetoric of Calvinism / James A. Harris

Quixotic confusions and Hume's imagination / Frasca-Spada

Hume's general rules and the 'chief business of philosophers' / R.W. Serjeantson

Hume's 'meek' philosophy among the Milanese / Emilio Mazza

Hume's fragments of union and the fiction of the Scottish enlightenment / Susan Manning

Hume-and others-on marriage / Sarah M.S. Pearsall.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-75360-9

9786610753604

0-19-155511-8

1-4237-6969-4

OCLC:

814475597