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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455205903321

Titolo

The new Hume debate / / edited by Rupert Read and Kenneth A. Richman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-55528-8

1-280-04981-2

0-203-46998-4

0-203-24372-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ReadRupert J. <1966->

RichmanKenneth A. <1966->

Disciplina

192

Soggetti

Philosophy, Scottish

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-203) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements and permissions; Reference notes; Introduction; 'Gilding or staining' the world with 'sentiments' and 'phantasms'; David Hume: Objects and power; The New Hume*; Hume's causal realism: recovering a traditional interpretation; Hume and thick connexions*; Hume on causality: projectivist and realist?; Sceptical doubts concerning Hume's causal realism; Relative ideas re-viewed; From cognitive science to a post-Cartesian text: what did Hume really say?

In closing: The new antagonists of 'the New Hume': on the relevance of Goodman and Wittgenstein to the New Hume debate Bibliography; Citation index; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Including new essays by renowned philosophers and Hume scholars such as Barry Stround, Simon Blackburn and Galen Strawson, this is the first book to discuss the whole debate about whether Hume was indeed a sceptic.