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1 online resource |
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Brill's Studies in Intellectual History |
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Brill's studies in intellectual history.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Unity of Scottish Newtonianism; Chapter 1 The Conceptual Unity of Scottish Newtonianism; Chapter 2 The Methodological Unity of Scottish Newtonianism; Methodological and Ideological Context; Chapter 3 Hume's Copernican Turn; Chapter 4 Newton's Method and Hume's Science of Man; Chapter 5 Hume and the Changing Ideology of Natural Inquiry; Hume's Method and Project; Chapter 6 Hume's Experimental Method; Chapter 7 A Chemistry of Perceptions; Chapter 8 An Anatomy and Physiology of Mind; Moral Philosophy and Normative Morality |
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Chapter 9 Three Perspectives on Human ActionChapter 10 The Objectivity of Moral Cognition and Philosophy; Conclusion; Bibliography; Subject Index; Name Index |
| Summary |
David Hume has a canonical place in the context of moral philosophy, but his insights are less frequently discussed in relation to natural philosophy. David Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism offers a discussion of Hume's methodological and ideological commitments in matters of knowledge as reflected in his language and outlook. Tamás Demeter argues that several aspects of Hume's moral philosophy reflect post-Newtonian tendencies in the aftermath of the Opticks , and show affinities with Newton-inspired Scottish physiology and chemistry. Consequently, when Hume describes his project as an 'anatomy of the mind' he uses a metaphor that expresses his commitment to study human cognitive and affective functioning on analogy with active and organic nature, and not with the Principia 's world of inert matter |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Hume, David, 1711-1776
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Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 -- Influence
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Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. Opticks.
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Hume, David, 1711-1776 |
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Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 |
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Opticks (Newton, Isaac) fast |
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016032876 |
| ISBN |
9789004327320 |
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9004327320 |
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