LEADER 04284nam 2200541Ia 450 001 9910816668603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-19715-7 010 $a0-19-803350-8 010 $a1-4237-2253-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000245694 035 $a(OCoLC)70070192 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10103650 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000250352 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11194215 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000250352 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10232028 035 $a(PQKB)10839451 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3052019 035 $a(OCoLC)56964096 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB163048 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000245694 100 $a20041101e20052002 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aStability and justification in Hume's Treatise /$fLouis E. Loeb 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York ;$aOxford $cOxford University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (297 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: 2002. 311 $a0-19-518104-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- I. Contexts for Hume's Epistemological Projects -- I.1. Hume's Distinction between Calm and Violent Emotions -- I.2. The Pyrrhonian Background to Hume's Interest in Stability -- I.3. The Motivational Role of Uneasiness -- I.4. The Two-Stage Development of Hume's Theory -- I.5. The Place of a Stability-Based Interpretation in the Literature -- I.6. A Prospectus -- II. Causal Inference, Associationism, and the Understanding -- II.1. Hume's Commitment to Causal Inference -- II.2. Hume's Intended Conclusion in I.iii.6 -- II.3. Hume's Reconstruction of Reason within a Faculty of Association -- III. Integrating Hume's Accounts of Belief and Justification -- III.1. A Puzzle in Regard to I.iii -- III.2. Steadiness and Infixing in Hume's Theory of Belief -- III.3. The Bearing of Hume's Treatment of Education -- III.4. The Natural Function of Belief -- III.5. Two Versions of the Stability-Based Theory -- III.6. A Defense of Attributing the Less Demanding Version to Hume -- III.7. Further Remarks on I.iv.7 -- IV. Unphilosophical Probability and Judgments Arising from Sympathy -- IV.1. Degrees of Belief and Justification -- IV.2. Instabilities Due to Observation of Accidental Conjunctions -- IV.3. Variations in Degree of Confidence Due to Memory and Causal Inference -- IV.4. Variations in Sentiment Due to Sympathy -- IV.5. Variations Due to Psychological Distance as Sources of Uneasiness -- IV.6. Corrections in Judgments of Probability and Moral Judgments -- V. The Propensity to Ascribe Identity to Related Objects -- V.1. A Pattern of Psychological Explanation in I.iv -- V.2. The Operation of the Propensity -- V.3. The Propensity and Instability -- V.4. The Propensity and Justification -- V.5. The Propensity and Meaning -- V.6. Tensions in Hume's Account of the Psychological Properties of the Propensity. 327 $aVI. Constancy and Coherence in I.iv.2 -- VI.1. A Puzzle in Regard to Hume's Treatment of Constancy -- VI.2. The Dispensability of the Propensity -- VI.3. Hume's Satisfaction with the Psychological Adequacy of His Treatment of Coherence -- VI.4. An Epistemological Obstacle to Subsuming Constancy under Coherence -- VI.5. A Metaphysical Obstacle to Subsuming Constancy under Coherence -- VI.6. An Amended Version of I.iv.2 -- VII. Difficulties-Contrived and Suppressed -- VII.1. Hume and Paradox -- VII.2. The Manifest Contradiction and Causal Inference -- VII.3. The Reduction of Probability "to Nothing -- VII.4. The Probability of Causes -- VII.5. Contrary Beliefs Based on Habit -- VII.6. Contrary Beliefs Not Based Solely on Habit -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W. 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of. 676 $a128 700 $aLoeb$b Louis E$0963141 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816668603321 996 $aStability and Justification in Hume's Treatise$93940014 997 $aUNINA