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1 online resource (337 pages) |
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Introduction -- Hume and Contemporary Philosophy: Legacy and Prospects / Ilya Kasavin and Evgeny Blinov -- Part I Hume's Skepticism: Pro and Contra -- Naturalism and Skepticism in the Philosophy of Hume / Barry Stroud -- Ambivalence as an Epistemological Approach: The Case of David Hume / Ilya Kasavin -- The Inevitability or Necessity of Scepticism: An Analysis of the Sceptical Rhetoric in A Treatise of Human Nature, 1.4.7 / Thomas Claisse -- Hume and Pyrrhonism / Orsan Oymen -- Part II Systematical Issues in Hume's Epistemology -- Hume and the Physicists / Rom Harré -- Hume on Testimony Revisited / Axel Gelferd -- The Problem of Empiricism in David Hume and in Contemporary Times / Ludmila Markova -- Normativity as Reflexivity -- Part III Hume and History of Philosophy: Answers and Interpretations -- Hume, Kant and Today's Aristotelian Counter Enlightment / Heiner F. Klemme -- Hume and Davidson: Passion, Evaluation, and Truth / John Bricke -- Hume, Kant and the Copernican Revolution / Tom Rockmore -- Hume, Deleuze and Social Theory: Superior Empiricism and its Consquences / Evgeny Blinov -- Hume and Reid on Newtonianism, Naturalism and Liberty / Chris Lindsay -- A Philosopher of Diminished Expectations: Is This the Secret to Hume's Popularity? / Steve Fuller -- Deleuze and Hume: Closure of History of Philosophy / Antonina Ignatenko -- Part IV Hume's Moral and Political Theory -- "Morality is a subject that interests us above all others..." / Joseph Pitt -- The Humean Elements of Rawls' Political Philosophy / Angela Coventry and Alexander Sager -- Humean Courage / Richard McCarty -- The End of Anatomy: Abstruseness, Paradoxicalness and Morals / Emilio Mazza -- Surpassing "the Ancients": Liberalism and Modernity in Hume / Michael Szczekalla -- Contributors |
| Summary |
David Hume bridges a gap between classical and non-classical philosophy. Two major approaches in 20th century systematic philosophy - naturalism and relativism - have both basically been inspired by Hume and create the most controversy nowadays. The dethroning of the knowing agent and the spiritual substance from their privileged place opens way to ""the death of God"" (F. Nietzsche) or ""the death of the Author"" (R. Barthes). Hume's criticism of causality corresponds to the indeterminism of the quantum mechanics (B. Russell). K. Popper's falsificationism would hardly be possible without Hume's account of induction. L. Wittgenstein's considerations on rule following reveal similarities with Hume's idea of habit (S. Kripke) as well as with P. Bourdieu's concept of "habitus" |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Print version record |
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Hume, David, 1711-1776 -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Hume, David, 1711-1776 fast |
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Critical thinking.
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Philosophy, Modern.
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Reasoning.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Reasoning
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Philosophy, Modern
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Critical thinking
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kasavin, I. T. (Ilʹi︠a︡ Teodorovich), editor.
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| ISBN |
9781443850049 |
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1443850047 |
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1299765106 |
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9781299765108 |
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