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
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
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).
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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