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Hume's Science of Human Nature: Scientific Realism, Reason, and Substantial Explanation: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

Autor David Landy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 dec 2019
Hume’s Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing what he calls ‘the science of human nature’. It argues that Hume understands scientific explanation as aiming at explaining the inductively-established universal regularities discovered in experience via an appeal to the nature of the substance underlying manifest phenomena. For years, scholars have taken Hume to employ a deliberately shallow and demonstrably untenable notion of scientific explanation. By contrast, Hume’s Science of Human Nature sets out to update our understanding of Hume’s methodology by using a more sophisticated picture of science as a model.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367891718
ISBN-10: 0367891719
Pagini: 278
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction
Chapter 1: Two Case Studies: The Impression-Idea and Simple-Complex Distinctions
Chapter 2: Hume’s Scientific Realism
Chapter 3: The Course of Science: Substance, Language, and Reason
Chapter 4: The Science of Body
Chapter 5: Necessary Connection and Substantial Explanation
Chapter 6: Explanation and Personal Identity in the Appendix

Notă biografică

David Landy is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Kant’s Inferentialism: The Case Against Hume (Routledge, 2015).

Recenzii

"Hume’s Science of Human Nature offers, and capably defends, a deeply original way of understanding Hume’s theoretical framework. The interpretation renders Hume’s naturalistic project a much more sophisticated endeavour than typically thought. It is an excellent and welcome addition to the literature."
-Hsueh Qu, National University of Singapore
"Landy does an outstanding job of highlighting the significance of some long-standing debates regarding Hume’s theory of representation by showing how they affect important questions about Hume’s account of scientific explanation and science in general." -Miren Boehm, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Descriere

This book updates our understanding of Hume’s scientific methodology by using a more sophisticated picture of science as a model. Landy argues that Hume is a kind of scientific realist who holds that science can and must employ theoretical representations of unobservable entities to explain the observed regularities of experience, and that we ar