Hume's Epistemology and Metaphysics: An Introduction

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ISBN: 9780415163187 | 0415163188
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Copyright: 5/6/1998

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Georges Dicker provides an exceptionally clear introduction to the key themes in Hume'sTreatise on Human NatureandEnquiry Concerning Human Understanding. He clarifies Hume's views on meaning, knowledge, causality and sense perception step-by-step and shows how philosophical thinking has been influenced by Hume.

Preface

(2)

Acknowledgments

(1)

Note on References and Abbreviations

xii

Introduction

(4)

1 Hume's theory of meaning and its implications

(30)

1 Hume's theory of impressions and ideas and meaning-empiricism

(10)

2 Application of Hume's test for meaning to "substance" and "self"

(6)

3 An alternative to the substance theory

(10)

4 Critique of Hume's bundle theory of the self

(4)

2 Hume's theory of knowledge (I): "Hume's Fork"

(26)

1 Introduction

(1)

2 "Relations of ideas" and "matters of fact"

(6)

3 A modernized version of Hume's Fork

(8)

4 A critique of the modernized "Fork"

(6)

5 Hume's denials concerning matters of fact

(6)

3 Hume's theory of knowledge (II): causal reasoning and the problem of induction

(38)

1 Introduction

(1)

2 Hume's critique of causal reasoning

(11)

3 The problem of induction

(16)

4 Hume's psychological explanation of induction

(2)

5 Need induction be justified?

(8)

4 Hume's theory of causality

(34)

1 Introduction

(1)

2 Necessary connection

100

(10)

3 Hume's analysis of causation

110

(6)

4 The regularity theory: some objections and replies

116

(17)

5 Hume's critique of the causal principle

133

(21)

1 Introduction

133

(1)

2 Why the causal principle is neither self-evident nor demonstrable

134

(6)

3 Stroud's critique of Hume's argument

140

(3)

4 Kant's "answer" to Hume

143

(11)

6 The belief in the existence of body

154

(41)

1 Introduction

154

(1)

2 Three assumptions behind Hume's account

154

(7)

3 The general nature of Hume's account

161

(2)

4 The nature and origin of the belief in the existence of body

163

(11)

5 The "vulgar system" and the "philosophical system"

174

(4)

6 A criticism of Hume's account

178

(5)

7 A contemporary perspective on Hume's account

183

(7)

8 A Kantian response to scepticism regarding the senses

190

(5)

Notes

195

(12)

Bibliography

207

(4)

Index

211

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