John P. Wright (Central Michigan University)

Gebundenes Buch

Hume's 'A Treatise of Human Nature'

Beschreibung

In this lucid and thorough introduction to Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, John P. Wright examines the development of Hume's ideas, their relation to eighteenth-century theories of the imagination and passions, and the reception they received when Hume published the Treatise.

Autor

John P. Wright is Professor of Philosophy at Central Michigan University, and was Visiting Professor in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 2004 to 2007. He is the author of The Sceptical Realism of David Hume (1983), and co-editor of Hume and Hume's Connexions (1994) and Psyche and Soma: Physicians and Metaphysicians on the Mind-Body Problem from Antiquity to Enlightenment (2000).

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780521833769
• ISBN-10: 0521833760
• Artikelnr.: 26551667