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Author Weintraub, Ruth, 1955-

Title Humean bodies and their consequences Ruth Weintraub
Published Cham : Springer, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (191 p.)
Series Jerusalem studies in philosophy and history of science
Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science
Contents Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Interpretation -- Chapter 2: Interpreting Hume on Bodies -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Interpretations of the Vulgar Belief -- 2.3 Interpretations of the Philosophical Belief -- 2.4 Phenomenalism -- 2.5 Neutral Texts -- 2.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Arguments for the Idealist Interpretation -- 3.1 Explicit Statements -- 3.2 Cognitive/Semantic Considerations -- 3.3 Humeś Discussion of Nominalism -- 3.4 The Need to Remove an Apparent Contradiction -- 3.5 The Argument from the Nature of Belief
Chapter 4: Meeting Objections to the Idealist Interpretation -- 4.1 The Idealist Interpretation Is Absurd -- 4.2 Hume Distinguishes Between Perceptions and Objects -- 4.3 Hume Distinguishes Between an External and an Internal World -- 4.4 The Idealist Interpretation Renders Hume Dogmatic -- 4.5 Humeś Discussion of our Ideas of Space -- 4.6 Hume Distinguishes Between Material and Immaterial Objects -- 4.7 Hume Identifies the Real Body with Material Existence -- 4.8 Conclusion -- Part II: Metaphysical Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation
Chapter 5: Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for the Unity of Space -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Synchronic Spatial Unity in Humeś Idealism -- 5.2.1 Synchronic Spatial Unity of Objects Each Person Perceives -- 5.2.2 Synchronic Spatial Unity in General -- 5.3 Synchronic Spatial Unity in Other Versions of Idealism -- 5.3.1 Synchronic Spatial Unity in More Sensible Versions of Humean Idealism -- 5.3.2 Synchronic Spatial Unity in Phenomenalist Space -- 5.4 Diachronic (Cross-Temporal) Spatial Unity -- Chapter 6: Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for Causation -- 6.1 Introduction
6.2 Must a Cause Precede Its Effect? -- 6.3 Must Cause and Effect Be Spatially Contiguous? -- 6.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for the Divisibility of Space -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Failure of Humeś Argument for the Finite Divisibility of Space -- 7.3 A Better Humean Idealist Argument for the Finite Divisibility of Space -- Part III: Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for Humeś Science of Man -- Chapter 8: Spatial and Causal Thoughts from an Idealist Point of View -- 8.1 Introduction
8.2 Thoughts Pertaining to Synchronic Spatial Relations -- 8.3 Thoughts Pertaining to Diachronic Spatial Relations -- 8.4 Causal Thoughts -- 8.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 9: How the Two Interpretations Impinge on Humeś Nominalism -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Nominalism -- 9.3 Berkeleyś Positive Account and Its Shortcomings -- 9.4 Humeś Nominalism from the Idealist Perspective -- 9.5 Humeś Nominalism from the Materialist Perspective -- 9.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 10: Geometry from the Materialist and Idealist Perspectives -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Geometry from the Idealist Perspective
Summary This book defends the very contentious Idealist interpretation of Hume on external objects, and draws from it far-reaching metaphysical and epistemological consequences for Humes philosophy. Its interest is both interpretive and analytic. The content Hume ascribes to the belief in bodies is susceptible to more than one reading, and has not been systematically considered. Upholding the Idealistic interpretation is interesting in its own right, but also yields several important conclusions about the spatiality of objects, causation, Humes science of man and his epistemology. For instance, it argues that the Idealist reading means that there are no cross-temporal spatial relationships, and that the (more prevalent) Materialist reading takes Hume further away from methodological empiricism than does the Idealist counterpart, and may render his practice less in conformity with his official methodology
Notes 10.2.1 The Difficulty
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Subject Hume, David, 1711-1776.
Human beings -- Philosophy
Idealism.
idealism (philosophical movement)
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783031507991
3031507991