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The New Hume Debate: Revised Edition
For decades scholars thought they knew Hume's position on the existence of causes and objects � he was a sceptic. However, this received view has been thrown into question by the `new� readings of Hume as a sceptical realist.
For philosophers, students of philosophy and others interested in theories of causation and their history, The New Hume Debate is the first book to fully document the most influential contemporary readings of Hume�s work. Throughout, the volume brings the debate beyond textual issues in Hume to contemporary philosophical issues concerning causation and knowledge of the external world and issues in the history of philosophy, offering the reader a model for scholarly debate.
This revised paperback edition includes three new chapters by Janet Broughton, Peter Kail and Peter Millican.
Kenneth A. Richman, Barry Stroud, Galen Strawson, Kenneth P. Winkler, John P. Wright, Simon Blackburn, Edward Craig, Martin Bell, Daniel Flage, Anne Jaap Jacobson, Rupert Read, Janet Broughton, Peter Millican, Peter Kail.
For philosophers, students of philosophy and others interested in theories of causation and their history, The New Hume Debate is the first book to fully document the most influential contemporary readings of Hume�s work. Throughout, the volume brings the debate beyond textual issues in Hume to contemporary philosophical issues concerning causation and knowledge of the external world and issues in the history of philosophy, offering the reader a model for scholarly debate.
This revised paperback edition includes three new chapters by Janet Broughton, Peter Kail and Peter Millican.
Kenneth A. Richman, Barry Stroud, Galen Strawson, Kenneth P. Winkler, John P. Wright, Simon Blackburn, Edward Craig, Martin Bell, Daniel Flage, Anne Jaap Jacobson, Rupert Read, Janet Broughton, Peter Millican, Peter Kail.
- GenresPhilosophy
296 pages, Paperback
First published July 20, 2000
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March 3, 2008
An excellent collection of papers devoted to the so-called "New Hume" reading of Hume as a kind of skeptical realist. This is required reading if you are into Hume scholarship.
The book has an emphasis on causation, and therefore as a corollary an emphasis on Hume's thoery of ideas. For this reason, even if Hume scholarship isn't your cup of tea, the material is relevant for anyone doing early modern, the history of ideas, and the history of science. Having said that, this is not just a collection of essays concerned with generating new theses soley from textual analysis; rather, the questions and problems raised have scope beyond mere Hume debates. The contributors relate the material to contemporary philosophical problems of causation and knowledge of the external world, as well as to some problems of language, mind, and occasionally metaethics.
Contributors include (but are not limited to) such big guns as: Barry Stroud, Simon Blackburn, and Galen Strawson.
The book has an emphasis on causation, and therefore as a corollary an emphasis on Hume's thoery of ideas. For this reason, even if Hume scholarship isn't your cup of tea, the material is relevant for anyone doing early modern, the history of ideas, and the history of science. Having said that, this is not just a collection of essays concerned with generating new theses soley from textual analysis; rather, the questions and problems raised have scope beyond mere Hume debates. The contributors relate the material to contemporary philosophical problems of causation and knowledge of the external world, as well as to some problems of language, mind, and occasionally metaethics.
Contributors include (but are not limited to) such big guns as: Barry Stroud, Simon Blackburn, and Galen Strawson.
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