Ideas, evidence, and method : Hume's skepticism and naturalism concerning knowledge and causation / Graciela De Pierris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Pierris, Graciela, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hume, David, 1711-1776. Treatise of human nature.

Hume, David.

Skepticism.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Causation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 318 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Hume's skepticism and naturalism concerning knowledge and causation

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Graciela De Pierris presents a novel interpretation of the relationship between scepticism and naturalism in Hume's epistemology, and a new appraisal of Hume's place within early modern thought. She argues that Hume was committed to the Newtonian inductive method while rejecting the place of the supernatural in our understanding of nature.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Ideas, Evidence, and Method: Hume's Skepticism and Naturalism concerning Knowledge and Causation""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Descartes, Rene""; ""Hume, David""; ""Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm""; ""Locke, John""; ""Newton, Isaac""; ""Introduction""; ""1: Descartes and Locke on Ideas, Evidence, and Knowledge""; ""1 Cartesian Intellectualism""; ""2 Locke and the Transition to Sensationalism""; ""3 Descartes on Intuitive and Demonstrative Knowledge""; ""4 Locke on Intuitive and Demonstrative Knowledge""

""5 The Leibnizean Alternative: Logical-Conceptual versus Presentational Models""""2: Hume on Ideas, Evidence, and Knowledge""; ""1 Hume's Radicalization of the Theory of Ideas""; ""2 Two Kinds of Philosophical Relations: Knowledge and Probability""; ""3 Space and Mathematics""; ""4 Skepticism with Regard to Demonstrative Reasoning""; ""3: Hume and Locke on Causation and Scientific Methodology: The Newtonian Legacy""; ""1 Newtonian Themes""; ""2 Newton and Locke on Scientific Methodology""; ""3 Hume and Locke on Causation and Necessity""

""4 Hume's Newtonian Ideal of Inductive Proof: Newton's and Hume's Rules""""5 Challenges to a Newtonian Interpretation of Hume""; ""6 Hume's Newtonian Ideal of Inductive Proof: Probability and Miracles""; ""4: Hume's Skeptical Treatment of the Causal Inductive Inference""; ""1 Competing Interpretations of Treatise 1.3.6""; ""2 The Deductivist Skeptical Interpretation""; ""3 The Anti-Skeptical Interpretation""; ""4 The Cognitive Mechanism Interpretation""; ""5 A Skeptical Inductivist Interpretation""; ""5: Skepticism and Naturalism Concerning Knowledge and Causation""

""1 The Vulgar, the Wise Man, and the Skeptic""""2 Skepticism with Regard to Demonstrative Reasoning Revisited""; ""3 Skepticism Concerning Probable Reasoning in Treatise 1.4.1""; ""4 The Conclusion of Book I""; ""References""; ""Index""

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-105766-5

0-19-178536-9

0-19-102616-6

OCLC:

907374489