The Blackwell guide to Hume's Treatise /
David Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature" is one of the important works of philosophy. This guide aims to provide students with the interpretive tools needed to begin mining Hume's "Treatise" for philosophical insight. It covers such topics as: the formulation, receptio...
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| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA ; Oxford :
Blackwell Pub.,
2006.
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| Series: | Blackwell guides to great works.
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Table of Contents:
- The Treatise: composition, reception, and response / John P. Wright
- Hume's other writings / Wade L. Robison
- Impressions and ideas / Janet Broughton
- Space and time / Lorne Falkenstein
- Belief, probability, normativity / William Edward Morris
- Causation / Abraham Sesshu Roth
- Identity, continued existence, and the external world / Donald L.M. Baxter
- Personal identity and the skeptical system of philosophy / Corliss Gayda Swain.
- Hume's conclusions in conclusion of this book / Don Garrett
- The powers and mechanisms of the passions / Lilli Alanen
- Hume's new and extraordinary account of the passions / Jane L. McIntyre
- Liberty, necessity, and the will / Tony Pitson
- Reason, passion, and the influencing motives of the will / Mikael M. Karlsson
- Hume's artificial and natural virtues / Rachel Cohon
- Virtue and the evaluation of character / Jacqueline Taylor.