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David Hume and the culture of Scottish Newtonianism : methodology and ideology in Enlightenment inquiry / by Tamas Demeter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Demeter, Tamás, author.
- Series:
- Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 259.
- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 0920-8607 ; volume 259
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hume, David, 1711-1776.
- Hume, David.
- Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727--Influence.
- Newton, Isaac.
- Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. Opticks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Brill, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- David Hume has a canonical place in the context of moral philosophy, but his insights are less frequently discussed in relation to natural philosophy. David Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism offers a discussion of Hume’s methodological and ideological commitments in matters of knowledge as reflected in his language and outlook. Tamás Demeter argues that several aspects of Hume’s moral philosophy reflect post-Newtonian tendencies in the aftermath of the Opticks , and show affinities with Newton-inspired Scottish physiology and chemistry. Consequently, when Hume describes his project as an 'anatomy of the mind' he uses a metaphor that expresses his commitment to study human cognitive and affective functioning on analogy with active and organic nature, and not with the Principia ’s world of inert matter.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- 1 The Conceptual Unity of Scottish Newtonianism
- 2 The Methodological Unity of Scottish Newtonianism
- 3 Hume’s Copernican Turn
- 4 Newton’s Method and Hume’s Science of Man
- 5 Hume and the Changing Ideology of Natural Inquiry
- 6 Hume’s Experimental Method
- 7 A Chemistry of Perceptions
- 8 An Anatomy and Physiology of Mind
- 9 Three Perspectives on Human Action
- 10 The Objectivity of Moral Cognition and Philosophy
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Name Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-32732-0
- OCLC:
- 953738621
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004327320 DOI
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