Custom and reason in Hume : a Kantian reading of the first book of the Treatise /
Henry Allison examines the central tenets of Hume's epistemology and cognitive psychology, as contained in the Treatise of Human Nature. Allison takes a distinctive two-level approach. On the one hand, he considers Hume's thought in its own terms and historical context. So considered, Hume...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Henry Allison examines the central tenets of Hume's epistemology and cognitive psychology, as contained in the Treatise of Human Nature. Allison takes a distinctive two-level approach. On the one hand, he considers Hume's thought in its own terms and historical context. So considered, Hume is viewed as a naturalist, whose project in the first three parts of the first book of the Treatise is to provide an account of the operation of the understanding in whichreason is subordinated to custom and other non-rational propensities. Scepticism arises in the fourth part as a form of metascepticism, di. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 412 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-406) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191559785 0191559784 9780191714450 0191714453 |