David Owen

Hume's Reason

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Produktbeschreibung

David Owen explores Hume's account of reason and its role in human understanding, seen in the context of other notable accounts by philosophers of the early modern period. Owen offers new interpretations of many of Hume's most famous arguments, about demonstration and the relation of ideas, induction, belief, and scepticism. Hume's Reason will be illuminating not just to historians of modern philosophy but to all philosophers who are concerned with the workings of human cognition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780198238317
• ISBN-10: 0198238312
• Artikelnr.: 24078191

Autorenporträt

David Owen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He taught previously at Oxford and Columbia Universities.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1. Introduction
2. Descartes' New Theory of Reasoning
3. Locke on Reasoning
4. Hume and Ideas: Relations and Associations
5. Intuition, Certainty, and Demonstrative Reasoning
6. Probable Reasoning: The Negative Argument
7. Belief and the Development of Hume's Account of Probable Reasoning
8. Reasons, Belief, and Scepticism
9. The Limits and Warrant of Reason
Bibliography
Index.